reading XML with UTF8

[Greg T Robertson]

I'm attempting to parse an XML document that looks like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Test>
<test2>\u00e6\u2013\u2021\u00e5\u00ad\u2014\u00e3\u0192\u2021\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00bf</test2>
</Test>
When I get the value for test2 - the string for it has \\u00e6, etc so instead
of being able to get the valid unicode characters i get '\' and then additional characters. I'm doing the parsing like this:

      
DocumentBuilderFactory documentBuilderFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
documentBuilderFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder documentBuilder = documentBuilderFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = documentBuilder.parse(new File(fileName));

using Xerces.
Anyone have any ideas as to why I am not getting the unicode characters?
thanks

[Lasse Koskela]

The "\u" escaping approach is not part of the XML standard. If you want the XML parser to interpret those sequences as Unicode characters, you need to use the &#...; notation.