Question

I try to parse an XML and get the following error, what could the problem be?

I/System.out(8058): Wrong XML file structure: Unexpected token
(position:TEXT @1:2 in java.io.StringReader@4113db88)

Thats the method I parse with

public final static Document XMLfromString(String xml){

    Document doc = null;

    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    try {

        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

        InputSource is = new InputSource();
        is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xml));
        doc = db.parse(is); 

    } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
        System.out.println("XML parse error: " + e.getMessage());
        return null;
    } catch (SAXException e) {
        System.out.println("Wrong XML file structure: " + e.getMessage());
        return null;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.out.println("I/O exeption: " + e.getMessage());
        return null;
    }

    return doc;

}

And thats the XML I try to parse:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<app>
    <Date Value="02.07.2012">
     </Date>
</app>

Answer 1

That seems like it doesn’t like the question mark. Can you make sure that you save the XML file with the correct encoding? (UTF-8)