Replacing " with "

[Manju Krishna]

Hello,
I am not able to write the " character as & quot; into the XML. Whereas, the other entities like < > and & and corresponding getting wriiten as & lt; & gt; and & amp;

I dont know why " is alone not getting expanded when written to the xml file.

Please Help..
I am caught with this problem for almost a day now...

NOTE: I have added a space between & and the rest of lt, gt and amp as I did not know how to overcome the escape of these entities

[Manju Krishna]

Also attaching the code and sample file.

 
package com.ventyx.l10nToolkit.modules.esoms.xml.importing;
import java.io.File;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Iterator;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.OutputKeys;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public class TestXML {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{
        String fileName = "D:\\StandAlone-Tasks\\eSOMS-translation\\eSOMS-Data\\NewData\\Export\\StdLogEntry.xml";        
        File file = new File(fileName);
        
        boolean validating = false;
        DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        factory.setValidating(validating);
        factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
        factory.setExpandEntityReferences(true);
        
        Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(file);
        HashMap newMap = new HashMap();
        newMap.put("NLOGS01", "New > \" & < test Description");
        parseDocment(doc, newMap);
        saveDocument(doc, file);
    }
     public static void parseDocment(Document doc, HashMap translationMap){
        NodeList listOfTags = doc.getElementsByTagName("StdLogEntryItem");
        int totalcount = listOfTags.getLength();
        for (int s = 0; s < totalcount; s++) {
            Element firstPersonNode = (Element)listOfTags.item(s);
            NodeList childList = firstPersonNode.getChildNodes();
            for(int i = 0; i < childList.getLength(); i++){                
                Node childNode = childList.item(i);
                if (childNode.getNodeType() != 3) {
                    System.out.println(childNode.getNodeName() + "\t" + childNode.getTextContent());
                    Iterator iterator = translationMap.keySet().iterator();
                    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
                        String keyValue = (String) iterator.next();
                        if(childNode.getTextContent().equals(keyValue)){
                            childList.item(i+2).setTextContent((String)translationMap.get(keyValue));
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    public static void saveDocument(Document doc, File file) throws TransformerException, 
            TransformerConfigurationException{
       
        Transformer transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
        transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.STANDALONE, "yes");
        DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource((Node) doc);
        StreamResult result = new StreamResult(file);

        transformer.transform(domSource, result);

    }
    
}

   

  
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<NewDataSet>
	<xs:schema xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" id="NewDataSet">
		<xs:element msdata:IsDataSet="true" name="NewDataSet">
			<xs:complexType>
				<xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
					<xs:element name="StdLogEntryItem">
						<xs:complexType>
							<xs:sequence>
								<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="ID" type="xs:string"/>
								<xs:element minOccurs="0" name="Description" type="xs:string"/>
							</xs:sequence>
						</xs:complexType>
					</xs:element>
				</xs:choice>
			</xs:complexType>
		</xs:element>
	</xs:schema>
  <StdLogEntryItem>
    <ID>NLOGS01</ID>
    <Description>New Description</Description>
  </StdLogEntryItem>
</NewDataSet>

  

[Paul Clapham]

You're saying that the " character doesn't get escaped as &quot; in a text node? That's because it doesn't have to be escaped in a text node.

And you didn't explain why that's a problem that you have to solve.

[Manju Krishna]

The end product of the process is to translate the given XML file for specific nodes. So if there are any & quot; is present in the given node's value, then the code must not alter those entities. It must still be there. The end users would point on that.

Sample files we received from the customer has & quot; in the node's value.

[Manju Krishna]

Is there no way out to get the " in the text nodes...

Please Help..

[Paul Clapham]

Not with the standard parsers, no.

But note that your customer's alleged requirements are contrary to the XML Recommendation. They are trying to assign significance to a feature which is explicitly declared to be not significant in the Recommendation. Other non-significant choices include whether to surround attribute values with single or double quotes, whether to use CDATA sections for text nodes, and many others. So the data you are producing is (from the XML point of view) identical to the data you claim your customer is requiring, even though it looks different to humans. So your customer shouldn't really be complaining. It might turn out to be your job to explain this aspect of XML to the customer rather than trying to make cosmetic but non-significant changes to the documents which involve great development costs.