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Prince Charming
Prince Charming

Reputation: 401

escaping xml element name in java

how do we escape xml element name in java

I am building xml with a run time data that have many special characters (e.g, "(") I know about StringEscapseUtils of apache-common-lang but it does not escape element name

any other option

Upvotes: 2

Views: 587

Answers (1)

McDowell
McDowell

Reputation: 108859

I am building xml with a run time data that have many special characters (e.g, "(") I know about StringEscapseUtils of apache-common-lang but it does not escape element name

I don't think such an escape mechanism has been formalized. ( cannot be part of an element name. Here are the constraints for an element name:

Name          ::= NameStartChar (NameChar)*
NameStartChar ::= ":" | [A-Z] | "_" | [a-z] | [#xC0-#xD6] | [#xD8-#xF6] |
                  [#xF8-#x2FF] | [#x370-#x37D] | [#x37F-#x1FFF] | [#x200C-#x200D]
                  | [#x2070-#x218F] | [#x2C00-#x2FEF] | [#x3001-#xD7FF] |
                  [#xF900-#xFDCF] | [#xFDF0-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#xEFFFF]
NameChar      ::= NameStartChar | "-" | "." | [0-9] | #xB7 | [#x0300-#x036F] |
                  [#x203F-#x2040]

Upvotes: 1

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