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

Just to throw in a different approach to a solution:

You might envelope your input stream with a stream inplementation that replaces the entities by something legal.

While this is a hack for sure, it should be a quick and easy solution (or better say: workaround).
Not as elegant and clean as a xml framework internal solution, though.