Re: writing XML from a string

Gregory Freeland wrote:
> I've been using Xerces-C DOM and have run into an issue when writing to 
> an XML file.  Basically, to write the XML file, I build up a 
> DOMDocument, adding nodes and such.  Once the document is complete, the 
> DOMWriter is used to write the node to a file.  I have cases though, 
> where I'll have a string containing XML characters, and several levels 
> of descendant nodes. Essentially, I want to write the string directly to 
> the file as a child node.
> For example, the code snippet below will create a new DOM element, add 
> an attribute, and add a child text node.  My problem occurs when the 
> XMLCh* variable "content" is a string that looks something like this:
> "<Child>Test Content</Child>"
>
> the resulting XML file will have the XML format characters translated.
>
> &lt;Child&gt;Test Content&lt;/Child&gt;
>
> So is it possible to write the above XML string as a Text node, while 
> retaining the XML formatting?
You are confusing content with markup/structure.  If you want to 
serialize markup, create structure (elements and text nodes), not a 
single text node.
You could also hack the serializer code, but then you are essentially 
breaking the code to match your model, which is inherently broken.
Dave