<name>First Name & Last Name</name> is simply not valid xml. That is why you get an exception when you try to parse it. The '&' needs to be escaped, e.g., as "&".
The setSaveSubstituteCharacters option has nothing to do with unmarshalling, only with marshalling. -----Original Message----- From: YesKay [mailto:keerthip...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 8:34 AM To: user@xmlbeans.apache.org Subject: XML Beans - Escape Chars I'm trying to escaping & char and getting below exception... just wondering what am I doing wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Here is my program. Exception ==> org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlException: error: Unexpected character encountered (lex state 3): ' ' at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale$SaxLoader.load(Locale.java:3471) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parse(Locale.java:706) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:690) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.store.Locale.parseToXmlObject(Locale.java:677) at org.apache.xmlbeans.impl.schema.SchemaTypeLoaderBase.parse(SchemaTypeLoaderBase.java:208) at org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject$Factory.parse(XmlObject.java:633) Program ==> public class XMLBeansEscapeChars { public static void main(String[] args) { try { String str = "<name>First Name & Last Name</name>"; XmlOptionCharEscapeMap escapes = new XmlOptionCharEscapeMap(); escapes.addMapping('&', XmlOptionCharEscapeMap.PREDEF_ENTITY); XmlOptions xmlOpts = new XmlOptions(); xmlOpts.setSaveSubstituteCharacters(escapes); XmlObject xmlObj = XmlObject.Factory.parse(str, xmlOpts); System.out.println(xmlObj.xmlText()); } catch (Exception ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } } } -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/XML-Beans---Escape-Chars-tp26813900p26813900.html Sent from the Xml Beans - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@xmlbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@xmlbeans.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@xmlbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@xmlbeans.apache.org
