Question

I am parsing a weather data feed and it works with certain locations but errors out with this message on some locations:

09-22 10:40:33.364: WARN/System.err(3347): org.apache.harmony.xml.ExpatParser$ParseException: At line 465, column 29: not well-formed (invalid token)

Any ideas what might be happening?

Here is a snippet of the xml:

                <hour time="11 AM">
                    <url>http://www.....</url>
                    <obsdate>9/22/2010</obsdate>
                    <txtshort>Parcialmente soleado</txtshort>
                    <weathericon>03</weathericon>
                    <temperature>26</temperature>
                    <feelslike>29</feelslike>
                </hour>

                <hour time="12 PM">
                    <url>http://www.....</url>
                    <obsdate>9/22/2010</obsdate>
                    <txtshort>Parcialmente soleado</txtshort>
                    <weathericon>03</weathericon>
                    <temperature>26</temperature>
                    <feelslike>29</feelslike>
                </hour>

Line 465 is the ‘hour’ tag with the 12pm attribute value. I have logged parse code and it is reading the xml up until it reaches this line.

Answer 1

This actually turned out to be an unrecognized character in parsing an XML document. What I did to fix this was to include the encoding type like this: (choose the encoding that matches your XML document)

InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(is);
//inputSource.setEncoding("iso-8859-1");
inputSource.setEncoding("utf-8");