Apostrope problem with xalan 2.7.0

[Nirmal]

Hi everyone,

While using xalan 2.1.0 and xerces 1.4.3 jars, the out file will have
the "'" in place of
" ' " Literal in input file.
When we use the latest version of xalan 2.7.0 and xerces 2.8.0, it will
result the same " ' " literal in out file,

The classes and methods that we suspected regarding this conversion are


OutputFormat format = new OutputFormat ("xml", encoding, indentResult);

format.setOmitXMLDeclaration (true);

serializer = new XMLSerializer (outputStream, format);



We need "'" in output file, can anyone help me in this regard.


Thanks and Regards
Nirmal JS

 

[Martin Honnen]

Nirmal wrote:

While using xalan 2.1.0 and xerces 1.4.3 jars, the out file will have
the "'" in place of
" ' " Literal in input file.
When we use the latest version of xalan 2.7.0 and xerces 2.8.0, it will
result the same " ' " literal in out file,

We need "'" in output file, can anyone help me in this regard.

Why? The only requirement to escape the single quote is if you have an
attribute value delimited by single quotes where the value contains a
single quote e.g.
<element att1='&apos;'>
Otherwise a literal single quote ' works just fine.

 

[Richard Tobin]

We need "&apos;" in output file, can anyone help me in this regard.

You shouldn't rely on this. XML tools may produce any equivalent
output (and &apos; is equivalent to an apostrophe), so you will always
be at risk of getting the "wrong" thing if you demand &apos;.

Of course, if you are processing the output as an XML document, it
should work perfectly well whichever you get.

-- Richard