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Asked: 2026-05-13T15:15:57+00:00

I am reading and writing Java Properties files in XML format. Many of the

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I am reading and writing Java Properties files in XML format. Many of the property value have HTML embedded, which developers wrap in [[CDATA elements like so:

<entry key="foo"><![CDATA[
    <b>bar</b>
]]></entry>

However, when I use the Java API to load these properties and later write them back to XML, it doesn’t wrap these entries in CDATA elements, but rather escapes the tags, like so:

<entry key="foo">&lt;b&gt;bar&lt;/b&gt;</entry>

Are these two formats equivalent? Am I introducing any potential problems by replacing CDATA with escaped tags?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Not equivalent, but the text value you get by calling getText() is the same.

    However, I would suggest you to abandon Properties in favor of real XML parsed by JAXB – it’s awesome, you’ll like it.

    Didn’t found any nice one, so at least these:

    Object -> XML: here

    Sun’s verbose tutorial: http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/2.0/tutorial/doc/JAXBUsing.html

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