Question

I am facing a problem in SAX parsing when I am trying to parse & char, All the other special chars are parsed automatically in SAX parser,but I am facing problem in & character.. anyone pls suggest me something??

Firstly I am saving my XML coming from webservices into a string and checking it side by side as

     if(ques_xml.contains("&"))
     {
                ques_xml=ques_xml.replaceAll("&", "&");
    }

//And the following method I am using to parse my saved XML.
public void XmlParsing(String questions_xml)
{
try {

        /** Handling XML */
        SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
        XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();

        /** Create handler to handle XML Tags ( extends DefaultHandler ) */
        MyXmlHandler myXMLHandler = new MyXmlHandler();
        xr.setContentHandler(myXMLHandler);
        xr.parse( new InputSource(new StringReader(questions_xml)));


        } catch (Exception e) {
            String err = (e.getMessage()==null)?"XMLParsing exception":e.getMessage();
            Log.e("XMLParsing Exception",err); 
        }


}

Answer 1

There are always problem in special symbol (&) parsing using SAX parser, I think this only thing can help you, Handling Special Characters

EDIT:

When you are handling large blocks of XML or HTML that include many special characters, you can use a CDATA section. A CDATA section works like <code>...</code> in HTML, only more so: all white space in a CDATA section is significant, and characters in it are not interpreted as XML. A CDATA section starts with .