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Re: javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities

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On 10/11/2011 6:57 PM, Aéris wrote:
> I use Transformer to create a HTML file from an DOM Document.
> But in generated HTML, all «&  » on text nodes in the document, which
> are parts of already escaped HTML entities like «  », are
> re-escaped by Transformer.
>
> See this sample : http://pastebin.com/LfGpWMai
> Instead of expected
> 	<div>&mdash;</div>
> I get
> 	<div>&amp;mdash;</div>
>
> I search on doc and Google, but nothing found to disable escaping.
> Is there anybody to help me ?

The code does exactly what it is supposed to do.

document.createTextNode("&mdash;")

creates a text node with those 7 characters.

Try:

document.createTextNode("\u2014")

Arne

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javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities Aéris <aeris@imirhil.fr> - 2011-10-12 00:57 +0200
  Re: javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-11 19:04 -0400
  Re: javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-11 19:15 -0400
  Re: javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities markspace <-@.> - 2011-10-11 17:58 -0700
    Re: javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-11 21:14 -0400

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