[jdom-interest] CDATA inconsistency

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 9:22 PM -0800 11/2/02, Malachi de AElfweald wrote:
>Ok, so the real issue is that the characters are being added as
>binary data instead of as Java chars then?

No. It's not. The problem is that a Java char is not a Unicode 
character and thus not an XML character.

>That would mean that
>grabbing the data from the initial source would be the problem?


Not really.

>So, if the original data were grabbed via a BufferedReader via
>an InputStreamReader using the correct encoding, would that not
>make sure that the data had the correct surrogate pairs internally,
>since they would all be valid Java characters?
>

A Reader might fix this, but might not, depending on what the 
original encoding was.
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