Transforming to HTML and problems with incorrect entities for quotes

Question

Hello,
I have a seemingly fairly simple problem, I have a DOM tree which I would like to convert to HTML.
This works fine, also for special characters like umlauts - they are escaped with the correct html entities.
However single and double quotes are not escaped at all. Do I need to define custom entities for that?
Sample code:
package generaltests;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import java.io.*;
public class XmlTransform {
public static void main(String args[]) {
try {
DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac =
DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
//<QBXML>
Element root = doc.createElement("ROOT");
doc.appendChild(root);
Element text = doc.createElement("TEXT");
root.appendChild(text);
text.appendChild(doc.createTextNode("Test text\n< With special character ' and umlaut �"));
// Transformation
TransformerFactory transfac = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer trans = transfac.newTransformer();
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.OMIT_XML_DECLARATION, "yes");
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "html");
trans.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "US-ASCII");
//create string from xml tree
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
trans.transform(source, result);
System.out.println(sw.toString());
} catch (Exception e) {
}Output is (the first left bracket in the second line is actually escaped correctly and only transformed to < in this post):
<ROOT><TEXT>Test text
< With special character ' and umlaut &ouml;</TEXT></ROOT>Edited by: tzu22 on Apr 16, 2008 1:44 AM
Edited by: tzu22 on Apr 16, 2008 1:50 AM

Answer 1

& quot; and & apos; have to be used for attribute values. For text nodes, " and ' can be used as ordinary characters.
Edited by: Alain_COUTHURES on Apr 16, 2008 8:32 AM