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Sergey Zhabinskii
Sergey Zhabinskii

Reputation: 488

How to disable escaping using XMLOutputter

I use XMLOutputter to write xml file to use it then in android. When the file is written, string

<string name="sname"><u>Text</u></string>

is written as

<string name="sname">&lt;u&gt;Text&lt;u&gt;</string>

I read "<u>Text<u>" from database and then put it into jdom Document. Then I write the document using

XMLOutputter outputter = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), "utf-8");
outputter.output(doc, writer);
writer.close();

How can I prevent escaping and put the exact string from database to file? (I want to have '<', not &lt; there)

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3814

Answers (1)

MJar
MJar

Reputation: 784

You should be able to prevent escaping by:

  • Extending XMLOutputer and overriding escapeElementEntities method

    XMLOutputter outputter = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat()) {
        @Override
        public String escapeElementEntities(String str) {
            return str;
        }
    };
Writer writer = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file), "utf-8");
outputter.output(doc, writer);
writer.close();

I found this here

  • Setting custom EscapeStrategy on the Format to prevent escaping certain characters

Either way you should be careful to produce a valid XML.

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 5

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