org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The reference to entity “T” must end with the ';' delimiter

Question

I am trying to parse an XML file whcih contains some special characters like \"&\" using DOM parser. I am getting the saxparse exception \"the reference to entity must e

Answer 1

In complement of @PSpeed's answer, here is a complete solution (SAX parser):

    try {

        InputStream xmlStreamToParse = blob.getBinaryStream();

        // Clean
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(xmlStreamToParse));

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        String line;
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line.replaceAll("&([^;]+(?!(?:\\w|;)))", "&$1")); // or whatever you want to clean
        }

        InputStream stream = org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toInputStream(sb.toString(), "UTF-8");

        // Parsing
        SAXParserFactory saxFactory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        saxFactory.setNamespaceAware(true);
        SAXParser theParser = saxFactory.newSAXParser();
        XMLReader xmlReader = theParser.getXMLReader();
        LicenceXMLHandler licence = new LicenceXMLHandler();
        xmlReader.setContentHandler(licence);
        xmlReader.parse(new InputSource(stream));

    } catch (SQLException | SAXException | IOException | ParserConfigurationException e) {
        log.error("Error: " + e);
    }

Explanations:

• Transform the Blob into an InputStream
• Clean the Blob
• Parse the file (LicenceXMLHandler is the parser class)