prevent groovy from changing " to "

Question

I have an XML that has a tag value like the following:

<ProjectNote>
    <Note>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN&quot;&gt;
        &lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;TITLE&gt;&lt;/TITLE&gt;
        &lt;META http-equiv=Content-Type content=&quot;text/html; charset=unicode&quot;&gt;
        &lt;META content=&quot;MSHTML 6.00.3790.4944&quot; name=GENERATOR&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;
        &lt;BODY bgColor=#ffffff&gt;
        &lt;P&gt;Key Deliverables&lt;/P&gt;
        &lt;UL&gt;
        &lt;LI&gt;schedule development 
        &lt;LI&gt;scope development (SOW) 
        &lt;LI&gt;business case (depending on project) 
        &lt;LI&gt;contracts (who will be used) 
        &lt;LI&gt;overall budget 
        &lt;LI&gt;Assign Key Stakeholders 
        &lt;LI&gt;Sitewalks and PreCon Meetings 
        &lt;LI&gt;Need Clearance?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
        &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;
    </Note>
<ProjectNote>

I am reading this file with groovy script and making some changes to it and writing it back to the file. However, the " is getting converted to " while parsing the file with XmlSluper. I don't want to change any other section of the file other than adding a new nodeto it. How can I keep the file as it is?

I am using following code:

package test

import groovy.xml.*
/**
 * A Simple Example that searches information from XML parsed by XmlSlurper.
 */
class Test {
    static srcXMLPath = "C:/SRC_Project/628548_C453_Original.xml"
    static updXMLPath = "C:/SRC_Project/628548_C453_Updated.xml"
    static def writer
    static main(args) {
        File srcFile = new File(srcXMLPath)
        def baseXMLStr = new XmlSlurper(false,false).parse(srcFile)
        def  newXMLStr = new groovy.xml.StreamingMarkupBuilder().bind {
            List_Wrapper {
                mkp.yield baseXMLStr
            }
        }
        writer = new FileWriter(updXMLPath)
        groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize( newXMLStr,writer )
        writer.close()

    }
}

However the updated file gets changed to this which is not my intention:

<ProjectNote>
    <Note>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"&gt;    
        &lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;TITLE&gt;&lt;/TITLE&gt;
        &lt;META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"&gt;
        &lt;META content="MSHTML 6.00.3790.4944" name=GENERATOR&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;
        &lt;BODY bgColor=#ffffff&gt;
        &lt;P&gt;Key Deliverables&lt;/P&gt;
        &lt;UL&gt;
        &lt;LI&gt;As Builts (if needed) 
        &lt;UL&gt;
        &lt;LI&gt;Mapping &amp;amp; Design Drawings&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;
        &lt;LI&gt;Engineer needs final approval 
        &lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;
    </Note>
<ProjectNote>

Could someone let me know how to avoid it. it is clearly not changing other escape characters

Is the generated xml (shown at the end in the question) not valid if it has `"` instead of `"`? — Rao, Jan 04 '18 at 05:53
The generated XML is an input to a different system which is rejecting it due to parsing issues — Sayantani Roy Chaudhuri, Jan 04 '18 at 13:24
@SayantaniRoyChaudhuri, your xml ends with `` but there should be `` — daggett, Jan 05 '18 at 08:26

Evgeny Smirnov · Answer 1 · 2018-01-04T14:27:40.343

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You may fix it after building markup:

new File(updXMLPath) << XmlUtil.serialize(newXMLStr).replaceAll('"', '&quot;')

But if you want to add only wrapper, then you don't need to parse source xml, you may past source file to markup as it:

    def  newXMLStr = new StreamingMarkupBuilder().bind {
        List_Wrapper {
            mkp.yieldUnescaped srcFile.text
        }
    }

Finally if you need to put only one List_Wrapper tag, maybe better to do:

new File(updXMLPath) << "<List_Wrapper>${new File(srcXMLPath).text}</List_Wrapper>"

edited Jan 04 '18 at 14:27

answered Jan 04 '18 at 07:53

Evgeny Smirnov

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But what if the parser parses other escaped characters as well? And if i replace all the '"' with '"' then wouldn't it change it for the attribute values as well? I only wan't to keep my source XML exactly as it was before I made changes to the file (that is adding a new tag) – Sayantani Roy Chaudhuri Jan 04 '18 at 13:33
Sorry I thought that you need to operate with source xml nodes too. Updated answer – Evgeny Smirnov Jan 04 '18 at 14:30

prevent groovy from changing " to "

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