Parsing Special Characters

Hi,
I'm parsing XML files using a DOM parser but I'm having trouble parsing superscripts. If a XML tag contains a value like 6 cm� the whole parser bombs. It reads the file then throws an error that says:
org.xml.sax.SAXException: Fatal Error: URI=file:D:/Project1/DomParser/d2kfw0ya.xml Line=543: The element type "Observation_Value" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</Observation_Value>".
I tried using a replaceAll statement, strB.replaceAll("&#178", "cm2");, but that didn't work either.
If I take out the superscript then everything works fine. I can't change how the XML is created because it is generated at another machineAny ideas on how to get around this?
Thanks,
-Matt

Mmm, I just read your original post that said you aren't the one producing the XML. It is unfortunately common for people to produce XML files that don't declare their encodings correctly. In that case there are two things you need to do:
1. Harass the producer of the XML to produce well-formed XML.
And when that doesn't work,
2. Write a small preprocessing program that fixes the encoding. Read the file in using an InputStreamReader that uses the actual encoding of the file, and rewrite it with an OutputStreamWriter that uses the encoding declared in the file, or UTF-8 if there is no encoding declaration.

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// adding a text element to the child
Text text12 = doc.createTextNode("status");
chilE.appendChild(text12);
//TransformerFactory instance is used to create Transformer objects.
TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT, "yes");
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.ENCODING, "UTF-8");
// create string from xml tree
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(sw);
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
transformer.transform(source, result);
String xmlString = sw.toString();
File file = new File("newxml.xml");
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter
(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(file)));
bw.write(xmlString);
bw.flush();
bw.close();
// print xml
System.out.println("Xml file created is :\n" + xmlString);
Edited by: Ramesh_Pappala on Oct 13, 2008 7:07 AM

Handling special characters through proxy

Hi Gurus,
we hvae a scenario sap to file, sending material information from SAP through outbound prpxy and palcing that detaisl in FTP loation using file adapter.
Here probelm is one of the fields desc and text we are passing material Description and basic text which may have special characters like # @ µ while these cahractrs coming to XI itselfthey are convering as #0 and giving soem fatal error in XI whaich is unabel to parse in XI mapping and end up with mapping error.
One more thing the if i use test the interface in dev and qa with the same characters these are working fine only failing in prod.
please suggest how to procedd furthur.. whhetehr there is any place to check this special charatcres ecoding, uncode maintned at r/3 side or side side.
here is the error
Root Cause: com.sap.aii.utilxi.misc.api.BaseRuntimeException: Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser : #0 not allowed in Character data sections(:main:, row:1, col:1607794) at com.sap.aii.mappingtool.tf3.rt.xparser.MTSaxHandler.run(MTSaxHandler.java:157) at com.sap.aii.mappingtool.tf3.rt.xparser.XParser.run(XParser.java:73) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:770) Root Cause: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.NestedSAXParserException: Fatal Error: com.sap.engine.lib.xml.parser.ParserException: XMLParser : #0 not allowed in Character data sections(:main:, row:1, col:1607794)(:main:, row=1, col=1607794) ->
Edited by: Jitender Devunuri on Oct 26, 2009 3:33 PM

Hi all .... any idea

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