XML containing Japanese data

Question

Hello,
We have an application, which should work for both English and Japanese languages. We are using MVC pattern, where the data coming from the browser is stored in a bean and is saved into the database using a separate persistence manager (PM) class. When multiple records are retrieved from the database, we are using XML to return the results from PM class to the controller. This works fine if the records contain only the English data. When we are trying to return the records containing Japanese data, we get an exception 'Illegal XML character' while parsing the string. Can somebody tell, which encoding should be used in XML, to make it work? We are using some other parsers as against the ones available in WebLogic. We don't know how to override the WL XML settings. Could the problem be because of that?
Kindly answer ASAP, since the project is getting delayed.
Thanking in anticipation...
-Medha

Answer 1

Hi Medha,
OK, if you are writing to a file you have to specify the encoding as
well, e.g.
File f = new File(sFileName);
FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(f);
Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(fos, "UTF8");
w.write(s);
w.close();
fos.close();
I was thinking that you are reading from a file. Is that correct? What
I'm doing is parsing XML Files containing simplified Chinese and Thai
characters. I store them in a UTF-8 encoded XML File. I read this as
described in my first posting. I'm using a new version of the xerces dom
parser, but I suppose that should not make a difference.
Could you post the stacktrace? And maybe a short example xml file in
UTF-8 encoding? I could try if my parser setup works with it.
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: Medha [mailto:[email protected]]
Posted At: Thursday, January 18, 2001 1:49 PM
Posted To: xml
Conversation: XML containing Japanese data
Subject: Re: XML containing Japanese data
Hi,
We tried JISAutoDetect, UTF-8, UTF-16, ISO-2022-JP and various JIS***
encodings in XML file.
We are using following code to parse the XML string
File filePointer=new File("/","test.xml");
FileWriter fileWriter=new FileWriter(filePointer);
fileWriter.write(xmlString);
fileWriter.close();
factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
document = builder.parse(filePointer);
We are using SAX parser version 1.0 from SUN. We are using jaxp.jar
and parser.jar files. They are located in the classpath before weblogic
stuff.
Hope you can suggest some solution.
Thanks,
Medha
Daniel Hoppe <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Medha,
some questions in order to help:
- which encoding are you currently using?
- Did you specify the encoding in your XML file (e.g. <?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>)?
- Are you reading the file from which you are building the strings
correctly (specify the encoding as well?)
     e.g.:
     InputStream is = new FileInputStream(sFileName);
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is,"UTF8");
Reader in = new BufferedReader(isr);
- which parser are you using and where in the classpath is it located
(especially before or behind the weblogic stuff including servicepacks)
>
Regards,
Daniel