How to make SAXParser ignore escape codes

Question

I am writing a Java program to read and XML file, actually an iTunes library which is XML plist format. I have managed to get round most obstacles that this format throws up exc

Answer 1

It's probably not the best general solution for escape characters, but I only had to take into account new lines so it was easy to just check for \n.

You could check for the backslash \ only to check for all escape characters or in your case &, although I think others will come with more elegant solutions.

@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) 
{
    String elementData = new String(ch, start, length);
    boolean elementDataContainsNewLine = (elementData.indexOf("\n") != -1);

    if (!elementDataContainsNewLine) 
    {
        //do what you want if it is no new line
    }
}