saxparser

I'm using Xerces to parse my xml document. The issue is that xml escaped characters like ' ' appear in characters() method as non-escaped ones. I need to get escaped characters inside characters() method as is. Thanks. UPD: Tried to override resolveEntity method im my DefaultHandler's descendant. Can see from debug that it's set as entity resolver to xml reader but code from overridden method is not invoked. javanna I think your solution is not too bad: a few lines of code to do exactly what you want. The problem is that startEntity and endEntity methods are not provided by ContentHandler

I want to parse some data from an xml file using SAX parser. My xml is as follows: <categories> <cat>Pies & past</cat> <cat>Fruits</cat> </categories> In order to parse this data I extend DefaultHandler. The output after parsing is: cat 1 = Pies cat 2 = & cat 3 = past cat 4 = Fruits Why is this happening instead of getting: cat 1 = Pies & past cat 2 = Fruits My guess is that you are treating each call to characters as delivering the complete text for a cat element. You should code your handler so that successive calls to characters accumulate the text, and you only capture it on the endElement

I have a string which comes via an xml , and it is text in German. The characters that are German specific are encoded via the UTF-8 format. Before display the string I need to decode it. I have tried the following: try { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( new ByteArrayInputStream(nodevalue.getBytes()), "UTF8")); event.attributes.put("title", in.readLine()); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { // TODO Auto-generated catch block e.printStackTrace(); } I have also tried this: try