java sax parser special characters

[shivaraj]

Hi,

I am getting special characters in my xml file because of which the
parser is failing. I know that we can replace the special characters
by & kind of place holders to make it work. But my trouble is, the
xml file will be generated by calling some API's. We cant read each
characters of the return value of this API to check for special
character and replace it. (XML file is having more than 2 lakh lines)
So is there a easy way of forming this XML which will take the whole
string having special characters into double quotes "' and treat it as
a single string?( I tried double quotes but it did not work...any
other approach please!? )

Regards,
Shivaraj

 

[Roedy Green]

I am getting special characters in my xml file because of which the
parser is failing.

I have written a tool that will interconvert between Unicode and
entity form for awkward characters. See
http://mindprod.com/products1.html#ENTITIES

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I am getting special characters in my xml file because of which the
parser is failing. I know that we can replace the special characters
by & kind of place holders to make it work. But my trouble is, the
xml file will be generated by calling some API's. We cant read each
characters of the return value of this API to check for special
character and replace it. (XML file is having more than 2 lakh lines)
So is there a easy way of forming this XML which will take the whole
string having special characters into double quotes "' and treat it as
a single string?( I tried double quotes but it did not work...any
other approach please!? )

&<> should be encoded as &amp; &lt; &gt; and all other special
characters should work if the actual encoding matches the one
in the XML declaration.

Arne

 

[shivaraj]

&<> should be encoded as &amp; &lt; &gt; and all other special
characters should work if the actual encoding matches the one
in the XML declaration.

Arne

Hi All,
Thanks for your help. I was able to rectify this by using <!
[CDATA[ string ]> format. I appended all my strings in CDATA section.
Thus it got resolved.
Regards,
shivaraj