Replacing a value of a node with CDATA (as is)

Hi All,
How do I replace the value of a node such that it's CDATA format is preserved and not re-encoded. Currently, when I do similar to the following:
replace value of node doc(doc_name)/parent/node with "<![CDATA[[the data]]]>"
the less than and greater than signs are replaced with &lt ; and &gt ; respectively, losing its CDATA section status.
How do I replace the value such that within the resulting XML it is exactly "<![CDATA[[the data]]]>" and not "&lt ;[CDATA[]the data]]&gt ;" ?
Thanks in advance
Cecil
Edited by: user5969022 on Jan 8, 2009 9:41 PM
Edited by: user5969022 on Jan 8, 2009 9:42 PM
Edited by: user5969022 on Jan 8, 2009 9:44 PM
Edited by: user5969022 on Jan 8, 2009 9:45 PM

John,
I am aware that it's synatic sugar. However, I actually need it to look that way. Thing is after edits, the resulting XML will be read by a component (that I have no access to change) which requires that node to have CDATA (as is) as it's value.
Anymore ideas; Anyone?
Instead of replacing the value (ie. replace value of node doc()...), I replaced the node (ie. replace node doc()...) with something similar to: <node>CDATA-section</node>. However, as expected only the data within the CDATA section gets persisted.
In this case could I turn something off or on such that xmldb leaves the CDATA-section as is? e.g. http://www.xquery.com/tips_and_tricks/including_CDATA_in_results.html
Thanks,
Cecil

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public K getFirstAssociatedKey(BilanzObjekt bo){
           Set<K> keys = this.container.keySet();
           for(K key: keys){
               V value = this.container.get(key);
               if (bo == value){
                    return key;
           return null;
     }It works, but I can't use the retrieved key for a put-statement, cause the satic type comparision seems to fail. Even the key is retrieved from the original, the compilier is unable to validate that the key is in the approiate Enum, so it refuses the operation.
In my special case I can avoid this by returning the value to the calling mehod inside the delegate, but that can't be the solution for all cases. Even If i would pass the key-vaue through all methods, the universial declaraction of ? extends Enum<?> would raise the same problem, that the compiler can't verify if the given key ist part of the Enum of the current EnumMap.
Cause i still not an expert dfor generics, I might have overseen an solution.
So is there any way to retrieve valid keys for the put-method at runtime without declaring a specilized subtype? Using rawtypes would supress compiler-errors, but that isn't the way what Generics intends. I allready have some lager Enums and some subsuets with EnumSet. But this solution isn't absolutly clean, cause you have to use the EnumSet to Iterate over the map and can't use keySet() anymore (Without special preparations for the values not contained in the EnumSet). Also I don't want to limit the code to only one type of Enum. So I my looking for another solution.
Is there hoepfully any easy and gernerally solution to that problem?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Greetings Michael

Hi, I redesigned my programm a little bit by returning the Objeckt which should be replaced to the delegate, but this causes the problem that I know that it is the exact type, cause the previous value had the same type before, but I can't replace it as long I don't except a fixed type for the value-parameter of the EnumMap.
The workaround which worked with keys via Map.Entry, cause I didn't replaced them, don't work here.
I found a solution which works for me (after the redisign mentioned above), even it is quite dirty., cause it moves the error detection form compiletime to runtime. But to gain more flexibilty, i prefer this. The else clause is just to find some programming faults as early as possible. I was quite suprised that the cast to V is legal, but the put -method will throw a ClassCastEcxception if it is not. So its a trade off betwenn flexibility and early error detection. I'm sure that should not used widely, but is a soluion or workaround for my problem.
/* dirty cast */
V new_v = (V) old.getReplacingValue();
                    if ( new_v != null){
                              /* If the both instance are of the same base class, this operation is safe,
                               * Cause if the previous value was ok, then the new value must be also OK!
                               * This should be the default case.*/
                         if(new_v.getClass().getName().equals( old.getClass().getName()) ){
                                     this.container.put(key, new_v);
                           }else{
                         /* Otherwise a class-cast exception is most likely,
                          * but should normally not reached, if replacing methods are always returning the most specialized type and are overwritten in all subtypes. */
                             try{
                              this.container.put(key, eBoNew);
                              }catch(ClassCastException cce){
                              cce.printStackTrace();
               }Greetings Michael

How to replace key value with character

Hi Experts
Can any one tell me, how to replace key value with character, whether it is possible are not. My present report is displaying below format.
country--city-area-flatnocountry--City-Flatno
Customer--USACOst1111---UK--HD20--
C100--11---11--
C200--11---1--
For the above example format i am able to display. But now i want to replace 1 with character value for example. For C100
country is USA at presnt 1 but it should replace with USA.
You find required format below.
country--city-area-flatnocountry--City-Flatno
Customer--USACOst1111---UK--HD20--
C100--USACOst1111--
C200--UK--HD20--
thanks .
Regards,
Vishal.

Hi Markus,
Thanks for reply,
Actually i dont have attribute for the customer, the data is maintained in ods, in the form, customer name one info-object and customer value one more info-object this value got text. This value stored in the ods as below
costomer number customer value
C100--USA
-C100CO
C100--11-
C200----
UK
C200----
20
Please let me know any clarification you need.
Thanks and Regards,
Vishal.

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