Re: entity-encoded XML

[Erin Harris]

Hi,

You might want to post this to the xerces mailing list: 
j-users@xerces.apache.org, as they might have some other ideas.

One suggestion is to wrapper the xml file with a start and end tag and 
then parse it, providing your own ContentHandler which has the following:

StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
 
public void characters(char[] arg0, int arg1, int arg2) throws 
SAXException {
        buffer.append(arg0, arg1, arg2);
}

When I ran this against the following input:

<root>
&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
&lt;?xml-stylesheet href=&quot;SalesToHTML.xsl&quot;
type=&quot;text/xsl&quot; ?&gt;
&lt;!-- SalesReport.xml --&gt;
&lt;SalesReport&gt;
                 &lt;Company&gt;XMML.com&lt;/Company&gt;
                 &lt;Period&gt;2001-2002&lt;/Period&gt;
                 &lt;Sales Region=&quot;EU&quot;&gt;50,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
                 &lt;Sales Region=&quot;NA&quot;&gt;150,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
                 &lt;Sales Region=&quot;AU&quot;&gt;10,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
&lt;/SalesReport&gt;
</root>

My string buffer contained:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="SalesToHTML.xsl"
type="text/xsl" ?>
<!-- SalesReport.xml -->
<SalesReport>
                 <Company>XMML.com</Company>
                 <Period>2001-2002</Period>
                 <Sales Region="EU">50,000</Sales>
                 <Sales Region="NA">150,000</Sales>
                 <Sales Region="AU">10,000</Sales>
</SalesReport>

The value of the string buffer can then itself be parsed.

Erin Harris





rbaxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
27/02/2007 11:44 AM

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Subject
entity-encoded XML







Hi, there may be a simple answer to this but I have not found anything.

I have an XML file that is entity-encoded (see below) which I want to
transform into an HTML file using Xalan.  What would be the best way to 
make
Xalan read the XML file?

Sample XML file:

&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;utf-8&quot;?&gt;
&lt;?xml-stylesheet href=&quot;SalesToHTML.xsl&quot;
type=&quot;text/xsl&quot; ?&gt;
&lt;!-- SalesReport.xml --&gt;
&lt;SalesReport&gt;
                 &lt;Company&gt;XMML.com&lt;/Company&gt;
                 &lt;Period&gt;2001-2002&lt;/Period&gt;
                 &lt;Sales Region=&quot;EU&quot;&gt;50,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
                 &lt;Sales Region=&quot;NA&quot;&gt;150,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
                 &lt;Sales Region=&quot;AU&quot;&gt;10,000&lt;/Sales&gt;
&lt;/SalesReport&gt;
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