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SAXReader not re-ecape characters

I'm reading a XML file with dom4j. The file looks like this: 

...
<Field>&#13;&#10; hello, world...</Field>
...

I read the file with SAXReader into a Document. When I use getText() on a the node I obtain the followin String:

\r\n hello, world...

I do some processing and then write another file using asXml(). But the characters are not escaped as in the original file which results in error in the external system which uses the file.

How can I escape the special character and have &#13;&#10; when writing the file?

Solution

  • You cannot easily. Those aren't 'escapes', they are 'character entities'. They are a fundamental part of XML. Xerces has some very complex support for 'unparsed entities', but I doubt that it applies to these, as opposed to the species that are defined in a DTD.