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

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Date	Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:14:56 -0400
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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On 10/11/2011 8:58 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 10/11/2011 3:57 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 «&nbsp; », 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 tried this:
>
> final Writer out = new StringWriter();
> final Source in = new StreamSource(
> new StringReader( "<test><div>&mdash;</div></test>") );
>
> transformer.transform( in, new StreamResult( out ) );
> System.out.println( out );
>
> And got an error:
>
> [Fatal Error] :1:19: The entity "mdash" was referenced, but not declared.
> ERROR: 'The entity "mdash" was referenced, but not declared.'
>
> So it's been a rather long while since I played with XSLT, but it seems
> to me that it might be your document builder that is protecting you, and
> the XSLT is just spitting out what it gets in. I forget though how to
> get XSLT to recognize the HTML entities though. Search Google might
> offer some clues.

Parsing XML file/string and building a DOM document
are somewhat different.

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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