Name: rmT116609 Date: 08/25/2003


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
I'd like to see refactoring of java.utils.prefs DTD. Currently entry has following syntax:

<entry key="key" value="value"/>

I'd like to be this syntax available too:

<entry>
 <key="key"/>
 <value="value=""/>
</entry>




JUSTIFICATION :
Why? Because it is not possible to put CDATA or entity into value of attribute! If my value contains < character (lower than), I have to escape it. This makes the XML unreadable and hard to maintain. I use prefs to configure my portal including SQL commands, so you can imagine, that this would be helpful.


EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Compare these two choices, which would you prefer?

<entry key="sql" value="select id from user where salary < 1000"/>

<entry>
 <key="sql"/>
 &lt;value="value="<![CDATA[ select id from user where salary &lt; 1000 ]]>"/>
&lt;/entry>

I would let the old option available, just add this possibility.
(Incident Review ID: 200146)
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