Java Type for XML?

Question

Three part question...
Is there a built-in type to handle XML content? For instance, the following
element and content...
<foo><![CDATA[blah blah blah]]></foo>
Or, is this typically handled by xsd:string? If xsd:sting is most
appropriate, then the responsibility of escaping the XML falls on the
implementation. When writing the XMLBean to a file, the above line is
translated as such:
<foo><![CDATA[blah blah blah]]></foo>
How to avoid escaping the '<' character?
Thanks,
Chris

Answer 1

Chris -- I've been tinkering a bit and haven't found a way to achieve what
you're looking for. Some other watcher on this group may have a solution,
though.
Incidentally, the example and output I provided were a mismatched. The code
should actually produce something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo><blah> blah blah</foo>
Steve
"Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
Hey Steve. Thanks for the reply.
The types are generated from a schema. Currently I'm using xsd:string:
<xsd:element name="coconutTests" type="xsd:string"/>
The element coconutTests will contain XML. Is there an XML type that
handles all the intricacies of XML content (such as the masking thecontent
w/ CDATA)?
The < happens when I write to an XMLBean to an XML file. Doesn't look
like this happened in your case. Strange.
ex.setCoconutTests("<![CDATA[ COCONUT TESTS HERE]]>");
where ex is an XmlObject and results in:
<coconutTests><![CDATA[ COCONUT TESTS HERE]]></coconutTests>
-Chris
"Steve Traut" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Chris -- Are you using types generated from schema, or parsing with an
XmlObject?
I tried code such as the following with your example:
XmlObject newObject =
XmlObject.Factory.parse("<foo><![CDATA[<blah> blah blah]]></foo>");
newObject.save(new File("c:/test.xml"));
And got this in test.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<foo>blah blah blah</foo>
Which is, I believe, the functional equivalent of your example. I tried
adding elements inside and outside the CDATA and got predictable
results.
For elements inside the CDATA (ie, interpreted as character data),XMLBeans
escapes the < as < rather than wrapping in a CDATA. At least in these
simple examples.
Steve
"Chris" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Three part question...
Is there a built-in type to handle XML content? For instance, thefollowing
element and content...
<foo><![CDATA[blah blah blah]]></foo>
Or, is this typically handled by xsd:string? If xsd:sting is most
appropriate, then the responsibility of escaping the XML falls on the
implementation. When writing the XMLBean to a file, the above line is
translated as such:
<foo><![CDATA[blah blah blah]]></foo>
How to avoid escaping the '<' character?
Thanks,
Chris