remove non-UTF-8 characters from xml with declared encoding=utf-8 - Java

Question

I have to handle this scenario in Java:

I\'m getting a request in XML form from a client with declared encoding=utf-8. Unfortunately it may contain not utf-8 charact

Answer 1

I faced the same problem while reading files from a local directory and tried this:

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(filePath), "UTF-8"));
DocumentBuilder db = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder();
Document xmlDom = db.parse(new InputSource(in));

You might have to use your network input stream instead of FileInputStream.

-- Kapil