Parsing XML file containing HTML entities in Java without changing the XML

Question

I have to parse a bunch of XML files in Java that sometimes -- and invalidly -- contain HTML entities such as —, > and so forth. I

Answer 1

I would use a library like Jsoup for this purpose. I tested the following below and it works. I don't know if this helps. It can be located here: http://jsoup.org/download

public static void main(String args[]){


    String html = "" + 
                  "Some text — invalid!";
    Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.xmlParser());

    for (Element e : doc.select("bar")) {
        System.out.println(e);
    }   


}

Result:

 Some text — invalid!

Loading from a file can be found here:

http://jsoup.org/cookbook/input/load-document-from-file