Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I am trying to store a string in a CDATA section of an XML file. Many of my strings have CRLF characters (i.e. ASCII 13 + ASCII 10) and these are causing problems.

I create a DOM, then write the DOM out to a file - it looks like a reasonable XML file (with line breaks in the CDATA section where I expect them to be), though examining the actual bytes in the XML file shows that it contains 13,13,10 instead of 13,10.

When I parse the file to read it back into a DOM, then extract the String from the CDATA section, the 13,10 from the original string has been replaced by 10,10, so trying to display it shows a series of non-printing characters.

I have tried this with both JAXP and oracle.xml.parser.v2 and both approaches give very similar behaviour. I write the file out as UTF-8.

Does anyone have any suggestions about what might be going wrong?