Problem in saving the ½, ¼, ¾ values in database using xml

Question

Hi
I am developing a java swing based application. In which I send data in xml format and save it on a online webstore through API calls.
When I send the data in following format 3½, 3¼, 3¾. It saves only 3 not the whole value means It is ignoring the values ½, ¼, ¾.
Here is my xml code which I am sending on network.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="yes"?>
<product>  
    <product-type>Shirts</product-type>
    <title>testStyle</title>
    <variants type="array">
        <variant>
            <fullfilment-service>manual</fullfilment-service>
            <inventory-management>shopify</inventory-management>
            <inventory-policy>deny</inventory-policy>
            <option1>Black</option1>
            <option2>3¼</option2>
            <option3 nil="true"></option3>
            <price>40.0</price>
            <requires-shipping>true</requires-shipping>
            <sku>1307681713338</sku>
            <taxable>true</taxable>
        </variant>
        <variant>
            <fullfilment-service>manual</fullfilment-service>
            <inventory-management>shopify</inventory-management>
            <inventory-policy>deny</inventory-policy>
            <option1>Black</option1>
            <option2>3½</option2>
            <option3 nil="true"></option3>
            <price>40.0</price>
            <requires-shipping>true</requires-shipping>
            <sku>1307681714634</sku>
            <taxable>true</taxable>
        </variant>      
    </variants>  
</product>In option2 tag I am passing ½, ¼, ¾.
Please give me some solutions .
Thanks
Edited by: Sonal on 28-Jun-2011 22:28

Answer 1

hi
Thanks for your reply.
I am using JAXB Parser for parsing. Here is my code.
          // Prepare for XML marshalling
          JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(ProductVariant.class);
          Marshaller marshaller = jaxbContext.createMarshaller();
          marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);
          StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        // Marshall product variant to XML
          marshaller.marshal(objProductVariant, stringWriter);
        // Prepare request content
          String entityString = stringWriter.toString();             
                StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(entityString);
          entity.setContentType("application/xml");
          httpPost.setEntity(entity);                     
        // Execute API call
          HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpPost);ProductVariant is a class name and objProductVariant is a name of object.
When I check the entityString value, 3½ is present there but after saving it, when I check in database it store 3 only.