How to avoid parsing strange characters

Question

While I am processing XML file, the Stax parser encountered the following line:

<node id="281224530" lat="48.8975614" lon="8.7055191" version="8" timestamp="2015-06-07T22:47:39Z" changeset="31801740" uid="272351" user="Krte�?ek">

and as you see there is a strange character at the end of the line, and when the parser reaches that line the program stops and gives me the following error:

Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError  
at [row,col]:[338019,145]

Message: Ungültiges Byte 2 von 2-Byte-UTF-8-Sequenz.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(Unknown 
Source)
at com.example.Main.main(Main.java:46)

Is there any thing I should change in the settings of Eclipse to avoid that error?

Update

code:

XMLInputFactory factory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
        XMLStreamReader parser = null;
        try {
            parser = factory.createXMLStreamReader(in);
        } catch (XMLStreamException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
            Log.d(TAG, "newParser",
                    "e/createXMLStreamReader: " + e.getMessage());
        }

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 19 '16 at 09:07

It is not about eclipse, but it is about encoding of your file. There are two cases:

1) file is corrupted, i.e. it contains incorrect symbols, not from defined encoding

2) file is not in utf-8 encoding and it is defined in xml header. So you should check, that you are reading file contents appropriately.

Sumit Singh · Answer 2 · 2016-01-19T09:21:56.763

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Read XML using UTF8 format.

File file = new File("c:\\your-file.xml");
InputStream inputStream= new FileInputStream(file);
Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream,StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

see the encoding of your file from comment: from reateXMLEventReader(InputStream stream, String encoding)

parser = factory.createXMLStreamReader(in, StandardCharsets.UTF_8); //if its utf-8

edited Jan 19 '16 at 09:21

answered Jan 19 '16 at 09:07

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It looks like he is already reading file in `utf-8` encoding, but it appears symbol which isn't in this encoding – Andremoniy Jan 19 '16 at 09:09
i am using StAX lib. and to read the xml file i use this line: parser = factory.createXMLStreamReader(in); and i cant use ,StandardCharsets.UTF_8 as a second parameter ..please have a look at the update section – user2121 Jan 19 '16 at 09:16
See the encoding of your xml file http://superuser.com/questions/638456/how-to-automatically-detect-text-file-charset-and-convert-it-to-utf-8 – Sumit Singh Jan 19 '16 at 09:19
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@user2121 What type is `in` in `createXMStreamReader(in)`? – forty-two Jan 19 '16 at 09:31
@forty-two it is FileinputStream – user2121 Jan 19 '16 at 09:44
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Then the answer from @Andremoniy hits the nail! – forty-two Jan 19 '16 at 10:04

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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If you edited and saved your XML file in eclipse, this can be a problem in case your eclipse is not configured to use UTF-8. Check this question: How to support UTF-8 encoding in Eclipse

Otherwise you probably don't need to do anything about your code. You just need a correctly UTF-8-encoded content.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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answered Jan 19 '16 at 09:22

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How to avoid parsing strange characters

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