Question

I have a Webservice(API) which I am passing to the DOM parser and it give the parsed result

Code reference :

public void parseContent(){
  URL url = new URL(http://My_Webservice_API);
  URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
  con.setConnectTimeout(5000);
  con.setReadTimeout(5000);
  Document doc = null;
  DocumentBuilderFactory docBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
  DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
  doc = docBuilder.parse(new InputSource(con.getInputStream()));
  doc.getDocumentElement().normalize ();
  NodeList TC = doc.getElementsByTagName("root");
  m_cTotalNo = TC.getLength();
  System.out.println("Total no of elements : " + m_cTotalNo);
}

Every thing works fine. The parser breaks on "<element>5>7</element> " . Please put some light how to handle the special character.

Answer 1

The forward slash is valid as is and
does not need further encoding.

The only reserved characters are:

> < & %

XML Entity for "/"?

If the parser really breaks on this (and not on some other character), then that is a bug.

You should encode > as > in XML.