JDOM support for unprintable characters

[zorrinn]

Hi

This the situation,

I have unprintable characters that need to be enclosed in an XML tag. For example,

char DATA_ELEM_SEP = 0x1D;

While builiding my XML string using JDOM, it complains that the 0x1D is an illegal XML character. Is there some way that I can use some kind of escape characters to put this in the XML???

Please help. This is urgent.

 

[JontyMC]

This is a guess but ∝ ?

 

[zorrinn]

Jonty

can you be a little more elaborate?? Thanks.

 

[JontyMC]

Special characters in XML are represented by entities. All characters can be represented by a number, like & which is an ampersand (&). Some also can be represented by names (ampersand is also &amp.

eg:

<xml>a &amp; b</xml>

would be the valid way to say:

<xml>a & b</xml>

Couple of links to look at:

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ent4_frame.html

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/latin1.html

 

[chiph]

That is indeed an illegal character in XML.
However, you can store it as &#1d; and the parser on the other end will convert it back for you.

Chip H.


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