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Subject: Re: javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:15:35 -0400
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On 10/11/2011 06:57 PM, Aéris wrote:
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> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with Java XML Transformer escaping.
>
> 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 search on doc and Google, but nothing found to disable escaping.
> Is there anybody to help me ?
>
> Thanks
>

I'm sorry I cannot help. I only comment that I am experiencing
the opposite problem with javax.xml.stream.EventReader. Either I
haven't figured out how to configure the reader or haven't grokked
the XML. Best of luck.