Illegal XML character SAX Parser exception

Question

The element type "body" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "".  i get this exception, its thrown from the SAXParser. if you look at the end tag it shows you an empty string end-tag "". . This should get displayed as end-tag "</body>". instead.
What can i do to make it displayed as end-tag "</body" . There are loads of similar issues on-line, but non of them had a satisfactory answer.
help !

Answer 1

and thanks for the replies :)Most of the replies you thank pointed you at searching how to escape HTML markup when copying the plain text to an HTML document. DId you consider doing this search?
For example, Jakarta's Commons-Lang library has a [StringEscapeUtils class|http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-release/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html] with methods that seem to provide just this capability.
now what i think i should do is, to append the auto generated error message with some special characters so it could display in html.No. The "special characters", or merely, special markup, are what makes the browser not render the string correctly (it probably thinks +</body>+ is the closing tag of the similarly-named HTML element. You need to escape this markup, or a at least the lower/greater signs that make it look like markup.
but how can i chnage the auto generated message ?You shouldn't strive to change the message itself, but to convert it to something that renders correctly when embedded into an HTML document.
Edited by: jduprez on Mar 17, 2010 12:35 PM