I am getting XML with the following tags. What I do is, read the

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I am getting XML with the following tags. What I do is, read the

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I am getting XML with the following tags. What I do is, read the XML file with Java using Sax parser and save them to database. but it seems that spaces are there after the p tag like below.

     <Inclusions><![CDATA[<p>                                               </p><ul> <li>Small group walking tour</li> <li>Entrance fees</li> <li>Professional guide </li> <li>Guaranteed to skip the long lines</li> <li>Headsets to hear the guide clearly</li> </ul>
                <p></p>]]></Inclusions>

But when we insert the read string to the database(PostgreSQL 8) it is printing bad charactors like below for those spaces.

\011\011\011\011\011\011\011\011\011\011\011\011

Small
group walking tour

Entrance fees

Professional guide

Guaranteed to skip the long lines

Headsets to hear
the guide clearly

\012\011\011\011\011\011

I want to know why it is printing bad characters(011\011) like that ?
What is the best way to remove spaces inside XML tags with java? (Or how to prevent those bad characters.)

I have checked samples and most of them with python samples.

This is how the XML reads with SAX in my program,

Method 1

  // ResultHandler is the class that used to read the XML. 
  ResultHandler handler         = new ResultHandler();
   // Use the default parser
  SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
    // Retrieve the XML file
    FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File(inputFile)); // input file is XML.
    // Parse the XML input
    SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
    saxParser.parse( in , handler);

This is how the ResultHandler class used to read the XML as Sax parser with Method-1

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

// other imports

    class ResultHandler extends DefaultHandler {

        public void startDocument ()
        {
            logger.debug("Start document");         
        }

        public void endDocument ()
        {
            logger.debug("End document");
        }

        public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName, Attributes attribs)
        throws SAXException {           
            strValue = "";      
            // add logic with start of tag. 
        }

        public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
        throws SAXException {
            //logger.debug("characters");
            strValue += new String(ch, start, length);
            //logger.debug("strValue-->"+strValue);
        }

        public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName, String qName)
        throws SAXException {           
            // add logic to end of tag. 
        }
    }

So that need to know, how to set setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true) or similar with sax parser.