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

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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 «  », 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.

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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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