CDATA and formattedText in RSS XML

[susnet.susanne.susnet.se]

I want to create a RSS feed.

The problem is this:

<description>

<![CDATA[ 

<s:formattedText value="#{blogEntry.content}" />

]]>

</description>

The s:formattedText is generated as

<description>

<![CDATA[

     &lt;s:formattedText value="And here goes my text

where swedish chars å,ä,ö has been replaced by ouml; &aring; and &auml; bla bla bla etc etc until the end of the text./&gt;

     ]]>

</description>

Question is: How do I combine the CDATA tag with s:formattedText?

My whole RSS xml file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<rss version="2.0"      

     xmlns:ui="http://java.sun.com/jsf/facelets"

     xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"     

     xmlns:s="http://jboss.com/products/seam/taglib"

     xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">

  <f:view>

  <channel>

    <title>Recepten.se RSS</title>

    <description>RSS 2.0 Channel</description>

    <language>sv-se</language>

    <h:outputText escape="false" value="&lt;link>http://www.recepten.se/blogg&lt;/link>"/>

    <ui:repeat value="#{latestBlogEntries}" var="blogEntry">

      <item>

     <title><h:outputText escape="false" value="#{blogEntry.title}"/></title>          

     <description>

     <![CDATA[

     <s:formattedText value="#{blogEntry.content}" />

     ]]>

     </description>

     <pubDate><h:outputText value="#{blogEntry.published}">

         <f:convertDateTime locale="en_US" timezone="GMT" pattern="EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z"/>

     </h:outputText></pubDate>

     <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.recepten.se#{blogEntry.URL}</guid>

      </item>

    </ui:repeat>    

  </channel>   

  </f:view>

</rss>

Any help is appreciated!

[gavin.king]

Call the Seam Text parser directly in code, instead of using s:formattedText. It's in the org.jboss.seam.text package.

[susnet.susanne.susnet.se]

Thanks for your answer, it solved my problem!

If someone else wonder how, I post my code here. I added the following method to my blogEntry entity:

import java.io.Reader;

import java.io.Serializable;

import java.io.StringReader;

import java.util.*;

import javax.faces.context.FacesContext;

import javax.persistence.*;

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

import org.jboss.seam.text.*;


public String getFormattedContent() {

       HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance ().getExternalContext ().getResponse ();

       response.setContentType ("application/rss+xml");


       Reader r = new StringReader(content);

       SeamTextLexer lexer = new SeamTextLexer(r);

       SeamTextParser parser = new SeamTextParser(lexer);

       try {

            parser.startRule();           

       }

       catch (Exception e) {

            System.out.println(e.getMessage());

       }

      return parser.toString();

  }

where content is the String property containing the seam text.

[tony.herstell1]

This code appears not to work.
Some problem with new SeamTextParser(lexer)

Any ideas?

[susnet.susanne.susnet.se]

This code I use in production with Seam 2.0.2.SP1 and it works just fine. It is the same as the code above except that I add the CDATA strings to start and end of the string that i return (and also don't print the CDATA string in the xhtml file).

public String getFormattedContent() {
       HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) FacesContext.getCurrentInstance ().getExternalContext ().getResponse ();
       response.setContentType ("application/rss+xml");

       Reader r = new StringReader(content);
       SeamTextLexer lexer = new SeamTextLexer(r);
       SeamTextParser parser = new SeamTextParser(lexer);
       try {
            parser.startRule();           
       }
       catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
       }
      StringBuilder formattedContentBuilder = new StringBuilder();
       formattedContentBuilder.append("<![CDATA[");
       formattedContentBuilder.append(parser.toString());
       formattedContentBuilder.append("]]>");
      return formattedContentBuilder.toString();
  }