Parse XML special characters?

Question

From the last 2 days I am searching that how to parse XML with special chars like !@#$%^&*()\':;\", but I am not getting anything sufficient that how to implement it.. Can a

Answer 1

 public void XmlParsing(String questions_xml)
{
    try {

        /** Handling XML */
        SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
        SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
        XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();

        /** Create handler to handle XML Tags ( extends DefaultHandler ) */
        MyXmlHandler myXMLHandler = new MyXmlHandler();
        xr.setContentHandler(myXMLHandler);

        xr.parse( new InputSource(new StringReader(questions_xml)));


        } catch (Exception e) {
            String err = (e.getMessage()==null)?"XMLParsing exception":e.getMessage();
            Log.e("XMLParsing Exception",err); 
        }


}
now when I am trying to parse & then my app crashes?