XML Parsing with international characters

[satya kiran]

Hi,
I am experiencing a problem while parsing the xml files. I am using jaxp 1.1 . The problem is with international characters.
I am reading a clob from a database and which has the values in the form of XML.
If the values in the tags are some special characters/international characters i am getting errors while parsing. It will be great, if i get some help.
Here is the sample values of xml file:
<ADDRESS>
<LANGUAGE_CD>CH-FR</LANGUAGE_CD>
<LAST_NM>Kaiser</LAST_NM>
<NICKNM>.</NICKNM>
<OFFICIAL_ADDR_1>Centre Informatique</OFFICIAL_ADDR_1>
<OFFICIAL_ADDR_2>Coll<caron>��ge Prog<caron>��deutique 2</OFFICIAL_ADDR_2>
</ADDRESS>
I am getting the following error:
Fatal Error: URI=null Line=1: Character conversion error: "Unconvertible UTF-8 character beginning with 0x8f" (line number may be too low).
Here is the sample code i am executing:
factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
// Create a JAXP SAXParser
saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();
// Get the encapsulated SAX XMLReader
xmlReader = saxParser.getXMLReader();
//Setting contenthandler for call back events
xmlReader.setContentHandler(this);
// iterate through the result set "rs" to get the clob and parse it.
Struct messageobj = (Struct) rs.getObject(1)
Clob theClob = (Clob) messageobj.getAttributes();
clobSource = theClob.getSubString(pos,(int)len);
// For handling parser errors and warnings
xmlReader.setErrorHandler(new ParseErrorHandler());
clobStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(parseClob.getBytes());
clobSource = new InputSource(clobStream);
//Parse the inputsource
xmlReader.parse(clobSource);

Thanks in advance for your help
Kiran

[satya kiran]

The problem is coming with <OFFICIAL_ADDR_2>Coll<caron>��ge Prog<caron>��deutique 2</OFFICIAL_ADDR_2>
Thanks,

[Lasse Koskela]

To me it looks like your XML document is malformed (contains invalid characters) and that that's what you should fix (probably by encoding those special characters somehow).

[Mert Nuhoglu]

This problem is related to the xml encoding. When using non-ascii characters you should specify which encoding is used in the document.

For instance,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-9"?>

The encoding code depends on the locale of your text editor or operating system. You can check it by the system property file.encoding.

From the following page you can obtain more information about xml encoding: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_encoding.asp

Best regards...

Mert Nuhoglu