• From: frank <frank@t...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:27:13 -0400

Gentlefolk,

I must have been too verbose.

I wish to pull text out of an ATG Dynamo repository, and serve it 
through WebSphere as an RSS2 feed. I need to wrap some of this text in 
CDATA sections. Forgoing the wisecracks, I have these two situations to 
deal with:

<link>http://example.com?category=12&lang=EN</link> and

...Example&rsquo;s really cool stuff....

According to two throwaway mentions I've seen, it should suffice to put 
on my JSP

<link><![CDATA[
{code}
]]></link> in order to get

<link><![CDATA[http://example.com?category=12&lang=EN]]></link>

which is what I really want. Instead those sets of characters, call them 
strings, markup or haiku, are vanishing into the ether.

I am fully aware that xml processors are liable to do things like that. 
My problem is that the J2EE and ecommerce types I'm working with, don't 
know what a CDATA section or an xml processor is, and they have assured 
me that they don't know anyone who does.

I'm hoping someone here has seen the issue before.

Thank you.

• References:
  • CDATA Section from JSP/ATG Dynamo
    • From: frank <frank@t...>
  • Re: CDATA Section from JSP/ATG Dynamo
    • From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>