Question

I’m trying to parse an XML file with Java and SAX for an android device. I got from the internet and while parsing it I’m getting an ExpatException : not well-formed (invalid token) on the character “é”.
Is there a way to handle those characters without having to change all the specials characters in the xml file?

edit :
Here is the part of my code writing the file to my SDcard.

File SDCardRoot = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory();
            File f = new File(SDCardRoot,"edt.xml");
            f.createNewFile();
            FileOutputStream fileOutput = new FileOutputStream(f);
            InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();


            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int bufferLength = 0;
            while ( (bufferLength = inputStream.read(buffer)) > 0 ) {
                fileOutput.write(buffer, 0, bufferLength);
            }

            fileOutput.close();

Here is a part of my xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ttss.xsl"?>

<timetable>
<option combined="0" totalweeks="0" showemptydays="0" dayclass="reverse">
<link href="g56065.xml" class="xml">Imprimer</link>
<link href="g56065.pdf" class="pdf">Version PDF</link>
<weeks>Semaines</weeks>
<dates>Dates</dates>
<week>Semaine</week>
<date>Date</date>
<all>Toutes les semaines</all>
<notes>Remarques</notes>
<id>ID</id>
<tag>Champs Libre</tag>
<footer>Publié le 10/09/2011 22:14:28</footer>
... </timetable>

here is the parsing code :

public class ParserSemaines extends DefaultHandler {
    private final String SEMAINE = "span";
    private final String DESCRIPTION = "description";
    private ArrayList<Semaine> semaines;
    private boolean inSemaine;
    private Semaine currentSemaine;
    private StringBuffer buffer;
    @Override
    public void processingInstruction(String target, String data) throws SAXException {
        super.processingInstruction(target, data);
    }
    public ParserSemaines() {
        super();
    }

    @Override
    public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
        super.startDocument();
        semaines = new ArrayList<Semaine>();
    }

    @Override
    public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String name, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
        buffer = new StringBuffer();
        if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase(SEMAINE)){
            this.currentSemaine = new Semaine();
            this.currentSemaine.setDate(attributes.getValue("date"));
            this.inSemaine = true;
        }
        if(localName.equalsIgnoreCase(DESCRIPTION)){
            this.currentSemaine.setDescription(buffer.toString());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String name) throws SAXException {
        if (localName.equalsIgnoreCase(SEMAINE)){
            this.semaines.add(currentSemaine);
            this.inSemaine = false;
        }
    }

    public void characters(char[] ch,int start, int length) throws SAXException{
        String lecture = new String(ch,start,length);
        if(buffer != null) buffer.append(lecture);
    }

    public ArrayList<Semaine> getData(){
        return semaines;
    }
}

here is the code I use to call the parser :

SAXParserFactory fabrique = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        SAXParser parseur = null;
        ArrayList<Semaine> semaines = null;
        try {
            parseur = fabrique.newSAXParser();
            DefaultHandler handler = new ParserSemaines();
            File f = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"edt.xml");
            parseur.parse(f, handler);  
            semaines = ((ParserSemaines) handler).getData();
        }

Ask if any other code parts are required.

After check it appears that the xml file in the SDcard shows “é” as “�”.
That should be the problem but I don’t have any clue why.
I also tried to parse with the URI but it don’t change anything I get always the same exception.

Answer 1

I finally find the solution.
Instead of using SAXparder, I use

android.util.Xml.parse(InputStream,Xml.Encoding.ISO_8859_1, DefaultHandler);

Thanks everyone for all the help you provide me.