XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Luca Passani <passani AT eunet.no>]

John Cowan wrote:

> Luca Passani scripsit:
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> > How do I force XOM to diplay '<' and not &lt; ?
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> You don't want it to.  
yes, I do! 

> Remember that XOM is generating XML, not HTML, and
> in XML, a < character may appear only at the beginning of a tag.
some people live in XML worlds, others live in the real world :)
I need to produce '>' and '<' because that's the only way I can compare 
numbers in JavaScript!

>  If
> XOM were to do what you want it to, the output would not be well-formed
> (which is another way of saying it is not XML at all).
>
>  
I tried to use <![CDATA[, but I get &lt;![CADA[  isn't that wrong?

> If you want to write HTML output, you can use the hacked version of
> XMLWriter packaged with TagSoup.
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>  
that may be a solution. Let me look around?

BTW TagSoup rocks, but I am noticing that it's not doing too well with 
long lists of JavaScript...
do I need to submit a bug report of some kind?

thanks

Luca