In my environment here I use Java to serialize the result set to XML. It happens basically like this:
//foreach column of each row
xmlHandler.startElement(ur
I found an interesting list in the Xml Spec: According to that List its discouraged to use the Character #26 (Hex: #x1A).
The characters defined in the following ranges are also discouraged. They are either control characters or permanently undefined Unicode characters
See the complete ranges.
This code replaces all non-valid Xml Utf8 from a String:
public String stripNonValidXMLCharacters(String in) {
StringBuffer out = new StringBuffer(); // Used to hold the output.
char current; // Used to reference the current character.
if (in == null || ("".equals(in))) return ""; // vacancy test.
for (int i = 0; i < in.length(); i++) {
current = in.charAt(i);
if ((current == 0x9) ||
(current == 0xA) ||
(current == 0xD) ||
((current >= 0x20) && (current <= 0xD7FF)) ||
((current >= 0xE000) && (current <= 0xFFFD)) ||
((current >= 0x10000) && (current <= 0x10FFFF)))
out.append(current);
}
return out.toString();
}
its taken from Invalid XML Characters: when valid UTF8 does not mean valid XML
But with that I had the still UTF-8 compatility issue:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence
After reading XML - returning XML as UTF-8 from a servlet I just tried out what happens if I set the Contenttype like this:
response.setContentType("text/xml;charset=utf-8");
And it worked ....