Problem in SAX Java mapping

Question

Hi,
I'm using SAX Java mapping in one scenario. Problem is when I get some Croatina characters, like Đ or u0160,
output XML is not valid. XML Spy complains, IE complains and so on. Customer is sure  that data ( XML in CLOB field in Oracle DB) is UTF-8? What could be a problem?
What I'm doing is reading entire XML into string with help of BufferedReader, then do some manipulation and write String into byte array with:
               byte[] bytes = file.toString().getBytes("UTF-8");
               saxParser.parse(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes), handler);
and then of course parse XML. readLine method reads data and problematic is "Ä�" - ￯0 - 0xC490.
For this character XML Spy doesn't complain, IE also. After conversion, this character looks like "Ä?" - 0xC43F, and this is not good any more. Why?

Answer 1

Hi Stefan,
I've finally done it. Code as foollws:
     public void execute(InputStream in, OutputStream out)
               throws com.sap.aii.mapping.api.StreamTransformationException {
          DefaultHandler handler = this;
          SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
          try {
               SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
               fStreamOut = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, "UTF-8"));
               encoding = "UTF-8";
               if (map != null) {
                    mappingTrace = (MappingTrace) map
                              .get(StreamTransformationConstants.MAPPING_TRACE);
               InputStreamReader is = new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF8");
               BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(is);
               StringBuffer file = new StringBuffer();
               String line = new String();
               try {
                    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                         file.append(line);
               } catch (IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
               } finally {
                    try {
                         in.close();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                         e.printStackTrace();
               Date d4 = new Date();
               file = replaceREGEX(
                         "<\\?xml version=\"1\\.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"\\?>", "",
                         file);
               char[] cArray = file.toString().toCharArray();
               Date filedat = new Date();;
               SimpleDateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd_HHmmss_SSS");
               String fName = df.format(filedat) + "_El_Invoice.xml";
               Writer out1 = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
                         new FileOutputStream(fName), "UTF8"));
               try {
                    out1.write(file.toString().toCharArray());
                    out1.close();
               } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
               } catch (IOException e) {
               saxParser.parse(fName, handler);
               File outFile = new File(fName);
               outFile.delete();
          } catch (Throwable t) {
               if (mappingTrace != null) {
                    mappingTrace.addInfo(t.toString());
               t.printStackTrace();
problem was also in method for writing in output stream, so I've changed it:
     private void printOutPut(String sOP) {
          try {
                  //    fStreamOut.write(sOP.getBytes());
               fStreamOut.write(sOP);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               e.notify();