hi, I am having a problem on parsing xml with backspace (0x0008) char.
(The tab char (0x0009) is fine) It turns out that dom4j cannot parse a xml with backspace char even the xml is generated by the dom4j itself. To demo the problem, here is the code section: import org.dom4j.Document; import org.dom4j.DocumentException; import org.dom4j.DocumentHelper; import org.dom4j.Element; public class Foo { public static void main(String args[] ) { Document document = DocumentHelper.createDocument(); Element root = document.addElement( "root" ); Element author1 = root.addElement( "author" ) .addText( "James Strachan" + (new Character((char) 8)).toString() ); String text = document.asXML(); System.out.println(text); try { DocumentHelper.parseText(text); } catch (DocumentException e) { e.printStackTrace(); //<----- excepiton occurs } } } The following are the output: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <root><author>James Strachan</author></root> org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 2 of document : Character reference "" is an invalid XML character. Nested exception: Character reference "" is an invalid XML character. at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:482) at org.dom4j.DocumentHelper.parseText(DocumentHelper.java:278) at Foo.main(Foo.java:24) Nested exception: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "" is an invalid XML character. at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:465) at org.dom4j.DocumentHelper.parseText(DocumentHelper.java:278) at Foo.main(Foo.java:24) Nested exception: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "" is an invalid XML character. at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source) at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:465) at org.dom4j.DocumentHelper.parseText(DocumentHelper.java:278) at Foo.main(Foo.java:24) Anyone know how to solve it? I use the dom4j-1.6.1.jar Regards, Chris Lai 29597369 GET 6303 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user