Android XML parsing with SAX can't read after "&" mark

Question

In my android application I read xml files and store those data in SQLite database. When I read a record that consists "&" mark it doesn't take entire text.

for example when I read the value in the following tag it only read the 49°38. The other part is loss.

<latitude> 49°38'59''N </latitude>

in the following instance it only take only get "John Levis" part and the characters after "&" are loss.

<name> John Levis & sons</name>

Does anyone have an idea to read the entire value ???

this is how I take the value from the XML handler class that extends the DefaultHandler.[this value take in the endElement methgod]

@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)throws SAXException 
{
    super.characters(ch, start, length);

    if(currentElement)
    {
        currentValue = new String(ch, start, length);
        currentElement = false;
    }
}

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1890404/sax-parsing-and-encoding/1891230#1891230 — Matthew Wilson, Aug 10 '11 at 15:59

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 10 '11 at 17:32

The characters() callback in SAX is allowed to split a text node into as many small pieces as it likes. You should accumulate them and process them when you hit the end of the text (typically an endElement event, perhaps a startElement event in mixed content). Many parsers split the text when they hit an entity reference, but they are allowed to split it anywhere.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 10 '11 at 16:10

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& should be encoded as & for the purposes of xml. Could you add the header of your xml file so we can see the encoding?

answered Aug 10 '11 at 16:10

Craig Millard

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, this is header of the xml file – JibW Aug 10 '11 at 16:14
Have you used logcat in the default handler to see exactly what is going into the database? – Craig Millard Aug 10 '11 at 16:41
Thanks AlaskanProgrammer... I found a way to parse XML using a string buffer. Matthew gave ma that...!!! – JibW Aug 10 '11 at 17:50

Android XML parsing with SAX can't read after "&" mark

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