How to parse an XML document containing Chinese characters and get an XML bean

[ragunath Mariappan]

Hello all,

(1) I parsed an XML document containing Chinese characters and got the XML bean as below:

MyDocument myDoc = MyDocument.Factory.parse(new File("chineseCharsFile.xml"));

(2) Then I tried to store it in a file as below:

BufferedWriter fw = null;
fw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("newChineseCharsFile.xml"));
fw.write(myDoc.xmlText());
fw.close();

(3) When I open "chineseCharsFile.xml" in a text editor, I'm able to see the Chinese characters, but when I open "newChineseCharsFile.xml" in the same text editor I'm not able to see the Chinese characters.


Any suggestions, please?

Thanks,
Ragu

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you don't specify an encoding when writing files, the platform default encoding will be used - which in all likelihood doesn't support Chinese characters. You can use an OutputStreamWriter wrapped around a FileOutputStream to accomplish this.

[Jair Rillo Junior]

Besides the enconding, I suggest you to take a look at XStream framework. It is very useful when you want parse/generate XML to BEAN and vice-versa.

[ragunath Mariappan]

Hello Ulf,

It worked after I wrapped OutputStreamWriter with BufferedWriter.

//fw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("newChineseCharsFile.xml"));
fw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(new File("newChineseCharsFile.xml")), "UTF-16"));

Thank you,
Ragu

[Nitesh Kant]

ragunath:
It worked after I wrapped OutputStreamWriter with BufferedWriter.

Just to keep you informed, it is not the BufferedWriter but the OutputStreamWriter that did the trick for you.