[jdom-interest] How to not expand entities?

[David Kavanagh]

I think you need to extend XMLOutputter. You can override 
escapeElementEntities() to escape the character ranges you are 
interested in (perhaps those with values over 127?).

David

Indrayan, Rahul wrote:

>Again, a question related to the same code: -
>
>import java.io.*;
>import org.jdom.*;
>import org.jdom.input.*;
>import org.jdom.output.*;
>
>public class Spike {
>	public static void main(String args[]) {
>		try {
>			SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder(false);
>			builder.setExpandEntities(false);
>			String xml = "<?xml version=\"1.0\"
>encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><!DOCTYPE root SYSTEM \"foo.dtd\"><root><proof>This is
>&#xe1; foofoo &#xf3; stuff!</proof></root>";
>			new XMLOutputter().output(
>				builder.build(new StringReader(xml)),
>					new PrintWriter(new
>FileWriter("c:\\proof.xml")));
>		}
>		catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
>	}
>}
>
>
>How do I output the XML to a string so that unicode such as &#xe1; does not
>get expanded and the file represent the special characters with their
>unexpanded equivalents (i.e., &#xe1;)?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
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