Junk Characters in the output XML file after Parsing

Question

Hi
I am using DOM parser to parse an XML file.
After parsing the input XML file, i am fetching some contents
from the same and also putting the same contents in the parsed output file which is also an XML file.
The problem here is that the after putting the contents to the output XML file from the input XML file,
some junk character appears at the end of each and every tag in the outputfile.
The junk character is some thing like this : " ampersand hash thirteen and a semicolon "
(*THE MESSAGE DID NOT ACCEPT THE SYMBOLS KINDLY TRANSLATE THE ABOVE WORDINGS*
INTO SYMBOLS)
This character gets appended at the end of each and every tag in the output file due to which the output file
is not recognised as an XML file.
Please let me know as to why is this character appearing and also please suggest some solution
for the same.
-Thanks in Advance.
Edited by: itskarthik on Oct 10, 2008 7:16 AM
Edited by: itskarthik on Oct 10, 2008 7:18 AM
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Edited by: itskarthik on Oct 10, 2008 7:19 AM
Edited by: itskarthik on Oct 10, 2008 7:23 AM
Edited by: itskarthik on Oct 10, 2008 7:23 AM

Answer 1

Wierd.
Try this piece of code. (You can always change it to use input file and output file instead of string if you want)
What is your output?
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
public class XMLTest {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
          String input = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r\n" +
                              "<test>\r\n" +
                              "</test>";
          System.out.println("Input:");
          lookForCR(input);
          DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
          Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse( new ByteArrayInputStream(input.getBytes()) );
          Source source = new DOMSource(doc);
          ByteArrayOutputStream bArrOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
          Result result = new StreamResult( new StripOutputStream( bArrOut ) );
          Transformer xformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
          xformer.transform(source, result);     
          System.out.println("\nResult:");
          lookForCR(bArrOut.toString());
          System.out.println("\nDone");
     public static void lookForCR(String input) throws Exception {
          char[] chars =input.toCharArray();
          for ( char chr : chars ) {
               if (chr == 13 ) {
                    System.out.println("Has 0x0D character!!");
class StripOutputStream extends OutputStream {
     OutputStream out = null;
     public StripOutputStream(OutputStream out) {
          this.out = out;
     @Override
     public void write(int b) throws IOException {
          if ( b != 13 )
               out.write(b);
}- Roy