Java: JDOM2 write ascii character in xml

Question

i am writing a xml, using JDOM2

the customers wish is, to have a line as follows:

<VT xml:space="preserve">&#50;&#48;</VT>

but all I can create is:

<VT xml:space="preserve">20</VT>

because the ascii is converted by my format encoding ("ISO-8859-1")

how to prevent this element from being converted...?

this is, what i use:

String str = "2";
String unescapeXml = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(str);
element.addContent(unescapeXml);

also i use:

format = Format.getPrettyFormat();
format.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
format.setExpandEmptyElements(true);
XMLOutputter out;
OutputStreamWriter fw = null;

out = new XMLOutputter();
out.setFormat(format);

try {
    fw = new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file));
    PrintStream printStream = System.out;

    // fw = new FileWriter(file);

    out.output(doc, printStream);

Answer 1

In JDOM you can establish rules for telling the output formatter when to escape character output. It is highly unconventional, but you could probably build an Escapetrategy like:

private static final EscapeStrategy alldigits = new EscapeStrategy() {
    @Override
    public boolean shouldEscape(char ch) {
        return Character.isDigit(ch) || DefaultEscapeStrategy.shouldEscape(ch);
    }
};

The above instance will cause all digits, and any other regularly-escaped characters to be escaped.

You can then set that strategy on an instance of your output formatter:

format = Format.getPrettyFormat();
format.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
format.setExpandEmptyElements(true);
format.setEscapeStrategy(alldigits);

Read up more about the EscapeStrategy here: http://jdom.org/docs/apidocs/org/jdom2/output/EscapeStrategy.html

and the way it is used in JDOM here: https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/blob/master/core/src/java/org/jdom2/output/Format.java#L147 and here: https://github.com/hunterhacker/jdom/blob/master/core/src/java/org/jdom2/output/support/AbstractXMLOutputProcessor.java#L765