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Posted to j-users@xalan.apache.org by Jean-Francois Beaulac <je...@beetext.com> on 2007/06/08 21:01:52 UTC

Serializing a DOM tree to XML file, customize entities replacement

Hi,

I am currently building a DOM tree using the Xerces implementation and then
write it to a String using the Xalan transformer.  I currently have a
problem with line breaks (I use System.getProperty("line.separator")) in the
text nodes being replaced by the entity &#13;. The application I am trying
to then send the XML message to does not transform that entity back into a
line break.

Is there a way to tell Xalan to use either a custom set of entities, or to
remove specific entities from this automatic treatment or am I force the
reparse manually the result to replace the &#13; back to a normal line
separator. Having a way to tell the transformer to use a custom set of
entities would be my best option since the application I communicate with
only threats: 

- &lt;
- &gt;
- &amp;
- &apos;
- &quot; 

Thank you

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Jean-Francois Beaulac 
jean-francois.beaulac@beetext.com