How do I write unescaped XML outside of a CDATA
- by kazanaki
Hello
I am trying to write XML data using Stax where the content itself is HTML
If I try
xtw.writeStartElement("contents");
xtw.writeCharacters("<b>here</b>");
xtw.writeEndElement();
I get this
<contents><b>here</b></contents>
Then I notice the CDATA method and change my code to:
xtw.writeStartElement("contents");
xtw.writeCData("<b>here</b>");
xtw.writeEndElement();
and this time the result is
<contents><![CDATA[<b>here</b>]]></contents>
which is still not good. What I really want is
<contents><b>here</b></contents>
So is there an XML API/Library that allows me to write raw text without being in a CDATA section? So far I have looked at Stax and JDom and they do not seem to offer this.
In the end I might resort to good old StringBuilder but this would not be elegant.
Update
I agree mostly with the answers so far. However instead of <b>here</b> I could have a 1MB HTML document that I want to embed in a bigger XML document. What you suggest means that I have to parse this HTML document in order to understand its structure. I would like to avoid this if possible.
