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RE: Problems parsing a weird entity

• From: "Klotz, Leigh" <Leigh.Klotz@x...>
• To: "James Carr" <james.r.carr@g...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:43:33 -0800

This may be an approach you have already rejected, but if you don't need
the illegal "1" character in your resulting data, you might consider a
filtering inputstream to pass to the input for the SAX builder and
convert he  to whatever you want it to be.  (Perhaps the character
sequence "" ?)

Something like
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/io/FilterInputStream.html

Leigh.

-----Original Message-----
From: James Carr [mailto:james.r.carr@g...] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 2:52 PM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject:  Problems parsing a weird entity

Hi All,

Recently we've been tasked to process several thousand xml files that
we can't modify, and in the process of parsing them with sax it seems
it has an invalid entity  . It seems we keep getting an exception
from this in all files.

Is there anyway to get around this without modifying the files? We are
using java 1.4.2's stanadard SAX api to parse the files.


Thanks,
James

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    • From: "James Carr" <james.r.carr@g...>