Oh boy, this is an old question. Seems the best solution is to search the input
stream and replace with this special character sequence '#'. This did
resolved my issue.
Thanks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oscar Usifer" <oscaru...@programmer.net>
> Subject: Input '&' symbol causing SystemID Unknown error
> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:14:33 -0500
>
>
> Folks,
>
> My input XML <entry></entry> values are containing '&' input
> symbols, e.g. "...<entry>Texas A&M</entry>", which results in
> errors as follows. I am reading the XML input from a SQL database,
> and thus appear as input CLOBs, so no specification is being set on
> the input charset. Any ideas how to resolve?
>
> Thanks,
> OSC
>
> Reported Error:
>
> SystemId Unknown; Line #1; Column #5383; The reference to entity
> "M" must end with the ';' delimiter.
>
> Source Code:
>
> public class ChatEncoder {
> ...
> public static void encodeHTML(Clob clob, Writer out)
> throws SQLException, IOException, TransformerException,
> TransformerConfigurationException
> {
> TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
> StringReader sr = new StringReader(XSLT_RAW);
> StreamSource ss = new StreamSource(sr);
> Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer(ss);
>
> transformer.transform(
> new StreamSource(getClobReader(clob)),
> new StreamResult(out));
> }
>
> ...
> }
>
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