� problem: Outputting XML to a browser and file

Question

Hi, thanks in advance for any help,
I have a program that produces xml needs to output it to a file and to the browser. Producing the xml is fine but the outputting part is giving me some problems:
1. On ouputting to the browser, MSIE is complaining that the � symbol is an invalid character. I have tried wrapping it in CDATA tags but to no avail.
2. On outputting to the file I am getting all ' symbols replaced by ' which isn't suitable either.
I was wondering how I could set these formats so I get pure text out to the file but unicode encodings for browser.
Below I have specified the code for outputting to the browser first and to a file second.
Cheers.
private void sendXML(HttpServletResponse pHttpServletResponse, Document pDocument) throws IOException{
pHttpServletResponse.setContentType("text/xml");
Writer lOut = pHttpServletResponse.getWriter();
OutputFormat lFormat = new OutputFormat(pDocument, "UTF-8", true );
XMLSerializer lSerial = new XMLSerializer(lOut, lFormat);
lSerial.asDOMSerializer();
lSerial.serialize(pDocument);
lOut.close();
private void writeDoc2File(Document pDocument, String pFilepath){
try{
Transformer xsltIdentity = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
DOMSource domSource = new DOMSource(pDocument);
StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
StreamResult streamResult = new StreamResult(stringWriter);
xsltIdentity.transform(domSource, streamResult);
String xmlnode = stringWriter.toString();
RandomAccessFile lRAF = new RandomAccessFile(pFilepath, "rw");
lRAF.setLength(0);
lRAF.seek(0);
lRAF.writeBytes(xmlnode);
lRAF.close();
catch(IOException e){
cLOG.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
catch(Exception e){
cLOG.debug(e.getMessage(), e);
}

Answer 1

I've just noticed that this site has a similar problem! The character I am having problems with is the UK pound symbol.