How to output a CDATA section from a Sax XmlHandler

Question

This is a followup question of How to encode characters from Oracle to Xml?

In my environment here I use Java to serialize the result set to xml. I have no access to

Answer 1

You should use startCDATA() and endCData() as delimiters, i.e.

xmlHandler.startElement(uri, lname, "column", attributes);
xmlHandler.startCDATA();
String chars = rs.getString(i);
xmlHandler.characters(chars.toCharArray(), 0, chars.length());
xmlHandler.endCDATA();
xmlHandler.endElement(uri, lname, "column");