[gxml] * add a test for escaped characters

[Richard Hans Schwarting <rschwart src gnome org>]

commit eb0ad461381c30c4ef856d3430ade2b2465978a3
Author: Richard Schwarting <aquarichy gmail com>
Date:   Thu Sep 29 20:04:00 2011 -0400

    * add a test for escaped characters

 gxml/Element.vala     |    4 +---
 test/ElementTest.vala |    6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gxml/Element.vala b/gxml/Element.vala
index 71f0d00..13ff31b 100644
--- a/gxml/Element.vala
+++ b/gxml/Element.vala
@@ -484,10 +484,8 @@ namespace GXml.Dom {
 		// TODO: add test
 		public string content {
 			owned get {
-				//return this.child_nodes.to_string (true);
+				// <> in with stringifying child nodes would get escaped, here the content is preserved
 				return base.node->get_content ();
-				// TODO: what's the difference between this and stringifying
-				//       the child nodes?
 			}
 			set {
 				// TODO: check impact on existing child nodes; they will be
diff --git a/test/ElementTest.vala b/test/ElementTest.vala
index 49555ef..13538e3 100644
--- a/test/ElementTest.vala
+++ b/test/ElementTest.vala
@@ -442,6 +442,12 @@ class ElementTest : GXmlTest  {
 					Element elem = get_elem_new_doc ("country");
 					elem.append_child (elem.owner_document.create_text_node ("New Zealand"));
 					assert (elem.to_string () == "<country>New Zealand</country>");
+
+					// during stringification, we don't want to confuse XML <> with text <>
+					Element elem2 = get_elem_new_doc ("messy");
+					elem2.append_child (elem.owner_document.create_text_node ("&lt;<>&gt;"));
+					assert (elem2.to_string () == "<messy>&amp;lt;&lt;&gt;&amp;gt;</messy>");
+
 					// TODO: want to test with format on and off
 				} catch (GXml.Dom.DomError e) {
 					GLib.warning ("%s", e.message);