Get method ignores xml tags?

Question

This is what I have in my little servlet:
        response.setContentType("text/xml;charset=UTF-8");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        String xmlRequest = request.getParameter("xml");
        if (xmlRequest != null)
          out.println("Client request: " + xmlRequest);
        }When I tried passing the data to the server (where the servlet resides), the output on the browser shows...
Client request: hihi2
But the output that I was hoping to see is actually <test><hi>hi</hi><hi2>hi2</hi2></test> since I did the request this way: http://localhost:8084/HS/HSServlet?xml=<test><hi>hi</hi><hi2>hi2</hi2></test>
Please advise.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You probably want to HTML encode the XML string, like this:
&lt;test&gt;&lt;hi&gt;hi&lt;/hi&gt;&lt;hi2&gt;hi2&lt;/hi2&gt;&lt;/test&gt;If you have embedded the XML directly in an HTML form, then chances are the browser is filtering out the XML tags as unrecognized HTML tags. Either of these examples would pose a problem:
<form action="http://localhost:8084/HS/HSServlet">
   <input name="xml" value="<test><hi>hi</hi><hi2>hi2</hi2></test>">
   <input type="submit">
</form>or
<a href="http://localhost:8084/HS/HSServlet?xml=<test><hi>hi</hi><hi2>hi2</hi2></test>">Test</a>