Question

I am creating an input xml to database procedure which i am creating manually through

StringBuilder.append();

finally when all my xml is created i am converting StringBuilder to string by

stringBuilder.tostring()

now the problem is i am getting &(ampersand) in string which i am giving input to oracle\n
stored procedure i have also replaced ampersand by

stringUtils.remove(string,'&')

but still oracle stored procedure is giving error for & (ampersand)

i want ask that is any character is getting converted to “ampersand character” in my string
like

¢ > < " ÷ 

Answer 1

You shouldn’t really be building XML by hand at all – it’s error prone and pretty much reinventing the wheel. For ongoing development I’d seriously consider a dedicated XML library.

However, if you want to quickly escape such characters look to the Apache Commons Lang library:

org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml("Here is data & containing special <chars>");