SAX parsing of '&' character [duplicate]

Answer 1

There are always problem in special symbol (&) parsing using SAX parser, I think this only thing can help you, Handling Special Characters

EDIT:

When you are handling large blocks of XML or HTML that include many special characters, you can use a CDATA section. A CDATA section works like <code>...</code> in HTML, only more so: all white space in a CDATA section is significant, and characters in it are not interpreted as XML. A CDATA section starts with .

Answer 2

In this case you can use StringBuffer.

Initialize the StringBuffer in the startElement.

   public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {
        //reset
         buffer = new StringBuffer();
....
}

Then in the characters just add the content to the StringBuffer.

public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException {
        buffer.append(new String(ch,start,length));
    }

And then finally use this StringBuffer in the endElement.

public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException {
       // use StringBuffer's object buffer here
}

This will surely work.