XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Luca Passani <passani AT eunet.no>]

forgot to CC the list as usual! sorry

Luca

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: [XOM-interest] javascript
Date:   Fri, 06 May 2005 15:31:26 +0200
From:   Luca Passani <passani AT eunet.no>
To:     Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
References:     <427B5551.2080104 AT eunet.no> <427B6FBC.4030409 AT metalab.unc.edu>



Elliotte Harold wrote:

> Luca Passani wrote:
>
> > How do I force XOM to diplay '<' and not &lt; ?
>
>
> You can't and that's a deliberate decision. XOM is designed to output 
> well-formed XML, and < is not well-formed.
>
> Possibly you could hide your JavaScript in a comment. 

you mean, create a comment programmatically with the JScript as the 
comment text?

> < does not need to be escaped in a comment so XOM doesn't do that; but 
> do you really need to do that? Why can't you just use &lt; ?
No because I get JavaScript errors!

I am using TagSoup and XOM-NodeFactory to take arbitrary web content, 
simplify it and add a bit of javascript to do some picture manipulation 
(DHTML)

Luca