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ryanhcaryanhca 

Handling ENTITY_REFERENCE when parsing XML

I'm using the XmlStreamReader class to parse through an XML response from a REST service. One of the elements is a string and can contain entity references -- like "&". So, if the element value is "this & that", a reader.getText() will only return "this " because the entity reference constitutes a different event.

 

I can do a reader.next() and check to see if the event is an XmlTag.ENTITY_REFERENCE, but then how do I get at what the actual entity reference is and then translate that back to the real character?

 

Thanks.

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ryanhcaryanhca

I realized that by setting the reader.setCoalescing(true) will resolve the issue so I don't need to worry about the character entities either way.

 

So in the example below, after setCoalescing is set to true, doing a getText will return "this & that".