javax.xml.transform.Transformer and HTML entities

[Aéris]

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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 «   », 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

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Aeris
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[Arne Vajhøj]

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 ?

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

 

[Jeff Higgins]

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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.

 

[markspace]

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.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

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