[xstream-user] Re: Parsing HTML special characters

[Jörg Schaible]

Hi,

Korrignu wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm working with XML file that contains HTML specials characters like
> "é".
> 
> I use XStream to build objects according to xml file, but I can't handle
> this kind of stuff. This is my very simple code :
> 
> String stoxml = xstream.toXML("a < b");
> System.out.println(stoxml);
> System.out.println(xstream.fromXML(stoxml));
> 
> and it works fine :
> <string>a &lt; b</string>
> a < b
> 
> but if my code is :
> stoxml = xstream.toXML("&eacute;");
> System.out.println(stoxml);
> System.out.println(xstream.fromXML(stoxml));
> 
> it becomes weird, it prints :
> <string>&amp;eacute;</string>
> &eacute;

This is absolutely the correct result! You provide a String to XStream and 
Xstream is able to convert it into proper XML and read it back. XStream does 
not interpret the provided string in any way.

> and then if my xml file looks like :
> <blog author="Guilh &eacute; rme Silveira">
>   <entry>
>     <title>first</title>
>     <description>My first blog entry.</description>
>   </entry>
>   <entry>
>     <title>tutorial</title>
>     <description>
>         Today we have developed a nice alias tutorial. Tell your
> friends! NOW!
>     </description>
>   </entry>
> </blog>
> 
> from your (modified) example, it raise an
> com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException:  : unresolved: &eacute;
> (position:START_TAG <blog author='null'>@1:28 in
> java.io.InputStreamReader@157fb52)
> 
> ...
> 
> Have you an Idea ?

XML specification does not define this entity. You are getting an absolutely 
correct exception from the XML parser, XStream is not even involved.

> Thanks for your time and your help.

Provide valid XML.

- Jörg


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