Characters

Description Characters are sent directly to the output. Some characters must be escaped depending on the form. Whitespace characters may be removed according to the whitespace control rules.
Simple Form
&
<
>
##
char (all other characters)
XML Form
&amp;
&lt;
&gt;
#
char
Translation to Java
out.print("&");
out.print("<");
out.print(">");
out.print("#");
out.print("char");
Example Template chars.template

abc
if (x<2 & x>5) then Java else C##

Example Spec spec.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<name>don't care</name>
Generated Output chars

abc
if (x<2 & x>5) then Java else C#