How to remove non-ascii characters from XML data

Question

I have some XML data that is in the following format. My application is supposed to read this using a XMLReader and do some processing to it . However, for that to happen, I nee

Answer 1

I would investigate as to why these characters are there in the first place. It looks like some encoding problem somewhere between the original XMLs and your file.

Anyway, when you read a line, just drop all the characters before the <XML>.