Special charactors found in out put file of .xml file in file adapter

Question

Hi ,
Dear all,
I am working on Sender File adapter picking files from the multiple Directories which are specified in a single CC and these files are placed in the different receiver directories in different CC's metained paths of the receivers
The Souce is XML.
When I use  the receiver format as .csv,.txt it the out put is as excepted,when i give the receiver format as .XML the output file contents:PK   (An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'file:).
Pl let me know how to tackle thsi situation.
Thanks,
Srini

Answer 1

Hi
Also try with the following UDF.
public class XmlUtil {
    char[] specialCharacters = { '&', '<'>', '\'' };
    String[] replacementStrings = { "&", "<">", "&apos;" };
    public static String sanitizeText( String text ) {
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer( text );
        for( int i = 0; i < buffer.length(); i++ ) {
            for( int k = 0; i < specialCharacters.length; k++ ) {
                if( buffer.charAt(i) == specialCharacters[k] ) ) {
                     buffer.replace( i, i + 1, replacementString[k] );
                     i += replaceString[k].length;
                } else if( (int)buffer.charAt(i) > 128 ) {
                     String replacement = "&#" + (int)buffer.charAt(i) + ";";
                     buffer.replace( i, i + 1, replacement );
                     i += replacement.length();
        return buffer.toString();
Regards
Abhishek Mahajan