SAX Parser Issue

[John Jai]

Hi,
I am reading an xml using XML Reader and writing it into smaller xmls. I am using UTF-8 encoding while reading the xml like below.

InputSource iS = new InputSource(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(parentDocument), "UTF-8"));	
iS.setEncoding("UTF-8");

When the parser encounters an entity like — ©, i use the endEnitity method like below to output to the buffer.

public void endEntity(String entityName) throws SAXException {
     collectData = true;		
     if(childElement != null)
	   emit("&" + entityName + ";");
}

My issue is that when an entity like — is encountered, the parser writes an extra unknown symbols like below in the output xml.

A Delayed Fix ——for the Marriage Penalty —— and for copy its coming -> "©Â©"

The above issue arises only if I run the parser application from Cygwin shell scripts in my local desktop (or alike sh scripts in Production). The issue do not occur in my local desktop when I run the parser as a standalone application using Eclipse.
I have some how narrowed down the issue to the below characters method of SAX parser.

public void characters (char buf [], int offset, int len) throws SAXException {
		if(emit && collectData)
			emit(buf,offset,len);		
	}
private final void emit(char[] ba, int off, int len) throws SAXException {
		try{
			if (buffer!=null ) {
				System.out.println("Chars -> " + new String(ba));
				String s = new String(ba,off,len);
				System.out.println("Chara after -> " + s);
				s = new String(s.getBytes("UTF-8"));	
				System.out.println(s);

				emit(preserveXMLEntities(s));
			}
		}catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e){
			throw new SAXException(e.getMessage());
		}
	}

The printlns show an extra character in the chars[] array as below -

Chars -> ùfor the Marriage Penalty
Chara after -> ùfor the Marriage Penalty
ΓÇöfor the Marriage Penalty
Chars -> ùfor the Marriage Penalty
Chara after -> ù
ΓÇö

My question is since I already output the entity using endEntity() method can I stop them from again printing out using the SAX parser's character() method.

[John Jai]

John Jai wrote:Hi,
When the parser encounters an entity like — ©, i use the endEnitity method like below to output to the buffer.

Actually the entities i specified in the above post has been changed. they were & mdash ; and & copy ; (without spaces)