Parser: Invalid Sequence error

Question

I'm using the Google API's map web service to geocode some addresses. The program works fine for US addresses until it tries an address in Germany that causes this fatal error:
[Fatal Error] geo?output=xml&key=AB...Q&q=HOLBEINSTRASSE+GERMANY%2C:1:220: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence.
     at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)
     at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)
     at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)
     at Geocode.main(Geocode.java:77)
However, in the browser, the resulting XML shows up fine as:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
    <Response>
      <name>HOLBEINSTRASSE GERMANY,</name>
        <Status>
          <code>200</code>
          <request>geocode</request>
        </Status>
      <Placemark>
        <address>Holbeinstra�e, 55543 Bad Kreuznach, Germany</address>
           <AddressDetails Accuracy="6">
           <Country>
           <CountryNameCode>DE</CountryNameCode>
.... etc.It seems that the � symbol isn't part of UTF-8 and that causes the parser to crash. I've search high and low for any related solution but most seem to imply changing the document's encoding. I can't do that here because this XML document is returned by a web service.
This is my code:
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder parser = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
// set up a document purely to hold the namespace mappings
DOMImplementation impl = parser.getDOMImplementation();
Document namespaceHolder = impl.createDocument("http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0", "f:namespaceMapping", null);
Element root = namespaceHolder.getDocumentElement();
root.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/", "xmlns:f", "http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0");
String strWebServiceURI = "http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?output=xml&key=AB..Q&q=";
strWebServiceURI += URLEncoder.encode("HOLBEINSTRASSE GERMANY,", "UTF-8");       
Node doc = parser.parse(strWebServiceURI);
...

Answer 1

Hi,
Just try this SQL Query.
SELECT 'C/' || :P2_MARKET_CODE|| '/' || TO_CHAR (TO_DATE(:P2_START_DATE, 'DD-MON-YY'), 'MMYY')|| '/' FROM DUAL;
Regards,
Kartik Patel
http://patelkartik.blogspot.com/
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=9904351712:1
Edited by: Kartik Patel on Mar 7, 2011 11:53 AM