Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi,

I had the problem, that the parser (Xerces, newest release) I use has a feature activated, that normalizes
values for attributes and elements. (see http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/features.html )

This feature is nice, but it seems that it also tries to normalize a CDATA section when XSD-validation is turned on. So whenever there is an element like
<musicgenre><![CDATA[R&B]]></musicgenre>
in an XML-file, the CDATA section causes an exception, because the normalization of "R&B" does not work. Note that normalization of "R & B" would work, but assume that I can't change the given xml.

Now I can turn off this feature by setting it via the setFeature(String,Boolean)-method to false,
but ain't there a way to configure such (default-set-to-true-) features by a properties file?

I know I can define the parser to use (JAXP properties etc.), but I can't define features that way?

Imaging you have some unmarshalling classes generated automatically by JAXB and you are not able to set this feature there, so there ain't a chance to do this?
Hard to image...

Any comments welcome

regards
Chris