JSF - XML - Parse XML Document in backing bean.

Question

Hello:
I'm trying to parse an XML text, readed from DB Table, everything was working OK
until somebody adds and XML with some values that makes the DOMParser raise
an exception, but, are valid values to our applications.
This is the example:
<Audit>
<PreviousValues>
<Table name="OFFICES">
<Column theName="ID" theValue="1"/>
<Column theName="OFFICE_NAME" theValue="TEST"/>
<Column theName="STATUS" theValue="AC"/>
<Column theName="ADDRESS" theValue="&&"/>
<Column theName="MANAGER" theValue="AA"/>
</Table>
</PreviousValues>
</Audit>
Note the value in bold, this chars are valid in this field, so we can't restrict the user
to type before the xml is generated, and when we try to parse it, we got an
exception like this:
XMLParseException: Expected name instead of &
When we remove this values manually in the DB and put some numbers, and try
to parse it again, it works ok. This is the code that parse the xml.
String xml = (String)requesScope.get("xml");
DOMParser theParser = new DOMParser();
theParser.setValidationMode(theParser.NONVALIDATING);
theParser.setPreserveWhitespace(false);
theParser.retainCDATASection(true);
Reader r = new StringReader(xml);
System.out.println(theParser.nameSpaceSeparator);
theParser.parse(r);
the last line is the one that raise the exception.
Please help.
thnks in advance.

Answer 1

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