Re: Parsing special characters like '&'

[Bob Jamison]

tom john wrote:

I need to create xml document from string. if the text
contains special characters like '&' it throws error.
is there any solution for this... may be some special feature that i can set for the
parser.

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Tom,

A little method like this can maybe fix your
problem.  It processes a raw string into an
XML-compatible one:

String xmlString(String val)
{
 if (val==null)
   return val;
 StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
 for (int i=0;i<val.length();i++)
     {
     char ch = val.charAt(i);
     if (ch=='&')
       buf.append("&amp;");
     else if (ch=='<')
       buf.append("&lt;");
     else if (ch=='>')
       buf.append("&gt;");
     else if (ch=='\'')
       buf.append("&apos;");
     else if (ch=='"')
       buf.append("&quot;");
     else
       buf.append(ch);
     }
 val=buf.toString();
 return val;
}

It will turn something like

"Rock & roll"

into

"Rock & roll"

Hope this helps.

Bob Jamison
LinCom Corp

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