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Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:22:22 -0400
From: John Casey <jdcasey@commonjava.org>
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On 8/2/11 6:10 PM, Benson Margulies wrote:
> In general, you really can't expect to retain CDATA unless you build a
> DOM tree, and maybe not then. It's a fundamental principle of XML that
> CDATA isn't part of 'the infoset' -- the data that is represented by
> the file. A parser is under no obligation to faithfully report this
> stuff, so long as the right text ends up in the right place.
>
> However, forget xpp3 and all that ancient lumber. Use Woodstox, or the
> Xerces DOM, and you can probably find enough options to ask it to do
> what you need.

yeah, that's basically what I was afraid I'd be left with...in other 
words, no quick and easy solution, but basically a reinvention of the 
model reader with a lot of extras.

>
>
> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:00 PM, John Casey<jdcasey@commonjava.org>  wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm working on some tooling for $dayjob that needs to manipulate POM files
>> according to certain rules.
>>
>> The problem I'm running into is that some of the POMs it much manipulate
>> contain CDATA sections, comments, etc. Also, since the modified POM often
>> will be used as the basis for a patch file, I'd like to preserve as much of
>> the ordering and existing whitespace in the file as possible, to minimize
>> the patchfile size.
>>
>> I'm currently using the JDom-driven, Modello-generated writer, coupled with
>> the stock XPP3-driven reader (not the best, I know). It's losing the CDATA
>> (big problem) and injecting ^M (wrong line ending, little problem)...
>>
>> Does anyone have experience with this? Anyone maybe have an advanced POM
>> reader/writer stashed somewhere that can preserve CDATA and the like?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -john
>>
>> --
>> John Casey
>> Developer, PMC Chair - Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org)
>> Blog: http://www.johnofalltrades.name/
>>
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