Question

Trying to read a generated XML from a MS Webservice

URL page = new URL(address);
StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer();
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) page.openConnection();
conn.connect();
InputStreamReader in = new InputStreamReader((InputStream) conn.getContent());
BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(in);
box.setText("Getting data ...");
String line;
do {
  line = buff.readLine();
  text.append(line + "\n");
} while (line != null);
box.setText(text.toString());

or

URL u = new URL(address);
URLConnection uc = u.openConnection();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {

    inputLine = java.net.URLDecoder.decode(inputLine, "UTF-8");
  System.out.println(inputLine);
}
in.close();

Any page reads fine except the web service output
it reads the greater and less than signs strangely

it read < to “& lt;” and > to “& gt;” without spaces, but if i type them here without spaces stackoverflow makes them < and >

Please help
thanks

Answer 1

Mark Rotteveel is correct, the webservice is the culprit here it’s for some reason sending the greater than and less than sign with the & lt and & gt format

Thanks Martin Algesten but i have already stated i worked around it i was just looking for why it was this way.