Question

I have an XML as input to a Java function that parses it and produces an output. Somewhere in the XML there is the word “stratégie”. The output is “stratgie”. How should I parse the XML as to get the “é” character as well?

The XML is not produced by myself, I get it as a response from a web service and I am positive that “stratégie” is included in it as “stratégie”.
In the parser, I have:

public List<Item> GetItems(InputStream stream) {

    try {

        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
        Document doc = db.parse(stream);
        doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
        NodeList nodeLst = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");
        List<Item> items = new ArrayList<Item>();

        Item currentItem = new Item();
        Node node = nodeLst.item(0);
        if (node.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE) {
            Element item = (Element) node;
            if(node.getChildNodes().getLength()==0){
                return null;
            }


NodeList title = item.getElementsByTagName("title");
Element titleElmnt = (Element) title.item(0);
if (null != titleElmnt)
    currentItem.setTitle(titleElmnt.getChildNodes().item(0).getNodeValue());
....

Using the debugger, I can see that titleElmnt.getChildNodes().item(0).getNodeValue() is “stratgie” (without the é).

Thank you for your help.

Answer 1

The answer was here: http://www.yagudaev.com/programming/java/7-jsp-escaping-html