Regenerate XML Document from bytes of BLOB retrieved from db

[susan atmaja]

I have a question on the supported character which can be saved / retrieved 
from database as an XML BLOB.

I saved an XML Document as a BLOB in db2. I can retrieve the BLOB from the 
db as an array of bytes.
I aim to regenerate the Document from the array of bytes.

The XML document contains characters such as,"�" "�" . I can save the 
document in the db without error. I can also retrieve it as an array of 
bytes succesfully. However, when I tried to regenerate the Document from it, 
it gave the following error : invalid byte 2 of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence (0x61)

Is there any limitation on the character set supported in a XML document to 
be retrieved from db? If there is? what are the supported set? Please help.

FYI, I am using Xerces 1.2.3 with Xalan 1.2.2. Following is the code I use 
to regenerate the Document from the array of bytes:

ByteArrayInputStream bInStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(cxmlBytes);
DocumentBuilderFactory dFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder dBuilder = dFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document doc = dBuilder.parse(bInStream);
Please advise. Thanks.

-Susan-

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