Parse Exception for &

Question

Hi I am using the following code for parsing an XML using DOM:
String xml = <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE cXML SYSTEM "http://xml.cXML.org/schemas/cXML/1.2.019/cXML.dtd">
<cXML payloadID="[email protected]"
      xml:lang="en-US" timestamp="1999-03-12T18:39:09-08:00">
    <Header>
        <From>
            <Credential domain="AribaNetworkUserId">
                <Identity>[email protected]</Identity>
            </Credential>
        </From>
        <To>
            <Credential domain="DUNS">
                <Identity>942888711</Identity>
            </Credential>
        </To>
        <Sender>
            <Credential domain="AribaNetworkUserId">
                <Identity>[email protected]</Identity>
                <SharedSecret>coyote</SharedSecret>
            </Credential>
            <UserAgent>Ariba ORMS 5.1P4 </UserAgent>
        </Sender>
    </Header>
    <Request>
        <PunchOutSetupRequest operation="create">
            <BuyerCookie>34234234ADFSDF234234</BuyerCookie>
            <Extrinsic name="randomKey">department code</Extrinsic>
            <BrowserFormPost>
<URL>*http://ariba.acme.com:1616/punchoutexit?UID=124466754CLK&ICX_IHD=CALLBACK_QEW*</URL>
            </BrowserFormPost>
            <SupplierSetup>
                <URL>http://workchairs.com/cxml</URL>
            </SupplierSetup>
        </PunchOutSetupRequest>
    </Request>
</cXML>
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder db = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource inSrc = new InputSource();
inSrc.setCharacterStream(new java.io.StringReader(xml));
Document doc = db.parse(inSrc); This xml renders fine when i open it in IE or Firefox and even validates fine when I use an online XML validator.
When I run my program, it throws an Exception:
com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.NestedSAXParserException: Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: Invalid char #0x0(:main:, row:1, col:823)(:main:, row=1, col=823)If you need a stack trace, please let me know and i'd be happy to put it up.
This column 823 points to the character just before the '&', which is 'K' in the URL in the above String xml.
Why is this throwing an error only when i run my program? Any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks.
Jack

Answer 1

i think that should be okay. i did notice, however, that you seem to be using the "sap" xml parser, which is not the one distributed with the standard sun jdk. you might try using sun's parser first and see what that does. if it parses okay, then it's probably a bug in the sap pparser.
Edited by: jtahlborn on Oct 10, 2008 1:00 AM