non-breakable space

[Jabba Laci]

Hi,

I'd like to produce the following XHTML output:

<xforms:label>Address: </xforms:label>

How to prevent that JDOM changes & to & ?

Thanks,

Laszlo
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[Tatu Saloranta]

--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@...> wrote:

> From: Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@...>
> Subject: [jdom-interest] non-breakable space
> To: "jdom" <jdom-interest@...>
> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 4:31 PM
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to produce the following XHTML output:
>
> <xforms:label>Address: </xforms:label>
>
> How to prevent that JDOM changes & to & ?

You don't. Just stick the non-breaking space character itself in content, and JDOM will escape it properly. Code for the character is 160, so in Java string constant it'd be something like "Address:\u00A0".

Hope this helps,

-+ Tatu +-



     
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[Jabba Laci]

Hi,

I added the character '\u00A0' to the end of the string, but as a
result I get "Address: " instead of "Address: ". When I verify it
in a browser, I have a funny character ("Address:Â") at the place of
the space.

Laszlo

>> I'd like to produce the following XHTML output:
>>
>> <xforms:label>Address: </xforms:label>
>>
>> How to prevent that JDOM changes & to & ?
>
> You don't. Just stick the non-breaking space character itself in content, and JDOM will escape it properly. Code for the character is 160, so in Java string constant it'd be something like "Address:\u00A0".

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[rolf.lear]

You can also do...

Element label = new Element("label", xformsnamespace);
label.addContent("Address:");
label.addContent(new EntityRef("nbsp"));

Rolf

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Subject: [jdom-interest] non-breakable space

Hi,

I'd like to produce the following XHTML output:

<xforms:label>Address: </xforms:label>

How to prevent that JDOM changes & to & ?

Thanks,

Laszlo
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[Tatu Saloranta]

--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@...> wrote:

> From: Jabba Laci <jabba.laci@...>
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] non-breakable space
> To: "jdom interest" <jdom-interest@...>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:27 AM
> Hi,
>
> I added the character '\u00A0' to the end of the string, but as a
> result I get "Address: " instead of

That's fine, there's nothing wrong in including character as is.
HTML does not require escaping, it just allows it.

However:

> "Address: ". When I verify it in a browser, I have a funny character
> ("Address:Â") at the place of the space.

Sounds like you have incorrect encoding specified; such that content is in Latin1, but page claims to be UTF-8, or vice versa. Nbsp byte itself is expressed differently in different encodings: as a 2-byte sequence in UTF-8, as a single byte in Latin1.

Alternatively, it is possible to make JDOM outputter escape all kinds of characters, for example anything outside of ascii range (char > 127). But you really should fix encoding problems for the page as that is one of most common problems with web page generation, and will eventually cause problems with other characters (accented ones etc).

Hope this helps,

-+ Tatu +-



     

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