Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a problem parsing a XML file which contains special characters like “, <, > or & in attributes of an element. At the moment I use XMLReader with an own ContentHandler. Unfortunatel changing the XML is not an option since I get a huge bunch of files. Any idea what I could do??
Best!
You have to change the XML in order to make it well-formed. The five magic characters must be encoded properly OR wrapped in a CDATA section to tell the parser to allow them to pass.
If the five magic characters are not encoded properly, you aren’t receiving well-formed XML. That ought to be the foundation of your contract with users.
Do a one-shot change.