Unable to parse value containing special character? Using sax parser

Question

I am new to parsing field. I\'m trying to write a parser code but unable to get the value with respect to a particular tag that value contains ampersand(&).

Answer 1

The problem is that the "&" is an escape character it self.

To fix this you need to replace the ampersand with a unicode equivalent, i.e: "&"

Answer 2

You must replace your special characters with the characters that are accepted for an XML file. In your case & should be replaced by &

@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
        throws SAXException {
    content = String.copyValueOf(ch, start, length).trim();
    content = content.replace("&", "&")
}

Answer 3

You can escape these chars like html does:

<branch_name>B &amp; P Infotech Ltd.</branch_name>

Or you have use of CDATA:

<branch_name><![CDATA[B & P Infotech Ltd.]]></branch_name>

Answer 4

There are some characters in XML that must not appear in their literal form in an XML document, except when used as markup delimiters or within a comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section.
List of characters and their corresponding entity or the numeric reference to replace :

Original Character    XML entity replacement      XML numeric replacement

      "                     "                       "   
      <                     &lt;                         &#60;   
      >                     &gt;                         &#62;
      &                     &amp;                        &#38;
      '                     &apos;                       &#39;   

you must replace above character in XML before you parse it.

You may use CDATA Section for text that is not markup constitutes the character data of the document