The problem was that I was using an XMLWriter instead of a StringBuilder and a normal file writer. XMLWriter was adding additional and invalid characters.
Thanks everybody for taking the time to help me! On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:39:40 PM UTC+2, Laura Bickle wrote: > >> Hi Jeff, >> >> I set the content type like so: response.setContentType("text/**xml"); >> >> I think MIME is a superset of content type. I don't explicitly set any >> other MIME things. How do I look up the MIME type of a file? >> >> My previous errors are from firefox. Per your suggestion, I tried using >> safari and chrome instead and they each gave me this error. The first line >> is the result of requesting the xml file. The second line comes from trying >> to parse it. >> >> (-:-) 2011-09-29 13:32:28,825 [DEBUG] result:<?xml version="1.0" >> encoding="UTF-8"?><stuff> >> > > IIRC, some browsers (can't remember which ones) choke on the XMLDecl when > it specifies an encoding; because you're parsing a String, which is a stream > of characters, and encodings only applies to streams of bytes (to actually > turn the bytes into characters). > Try trimming the XMLDecl from your XML before giving it to > XMLParser.parse(). > Something like (untested): > if (xml.substring(0, 5).equalsIgnoreCase("<?xml")) { > xml = xml.substring(xml.indexOf("?>") + 2); > } > > Best would of course be to emit the encoding in the Content-Type HTTP > header (application/xml; charset=UTF-8) and not send the XMLDecl at all. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/1h74ivOd75AJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
