escapre character for xml

[fang eve]

i am generating a XML file, using java function. I have encounter some problem. When i insert "(" ,")" these 2 character, my XML format will be wrong. How can i escape this character? thanks

[shan sundaram]

Actually, Where the problem(XML or java program)?
If the problem in handling this string in java use,
String str = "\"(\" ,\")\"";

[fang eve]

i guess is java. my code is

 
 for (int col=0; col<numOfCol; col++){
            for (int row=1; row<numOfRow; row++){
                if (col==(numOfCol-1)){
                    cell=tableCells[col][row].getContents();
                     cell=cell.replaceAll("'","''");
                    values+=","+cell+"";
                    //  content.add(values);
                    
                }else{
                    cell=tableCells[col][row].getContents();
                     cell=cell.replaceAll("'","''");
                    values+=","+cell+"";
             
                }
        
            }  //end   for (int row=1; row<numOfRow; row++)
                 
             content.add(values);
 
   

My guess is because of the () for the content.add.. Am i correct?

[shan sundaram]

yes

[Paul Clapham]

No. Parentheses are not special characters in any way in XML. So you should investigate your problem again to find out what it really is.