Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hello all,

I've been writting an application that modifies XML where the data is parsed using a SAX parses and the information is placed into a list.

I understand that when SAX parses it escapes HTML entites. So for *"* in the data... it becomes *"* when I generate my list. I need this to stop happening or at least correct this before I recompile the XML. I've been using regular expressions to find *"*, *©*, etc... and replace them, which is working well. However, the main problem is that for a character like *Ã* it is being converted against my will into *ø* by the parser before my code can handle it, so in the end my regex will convert the wrong value.

When the *startElement* method (of SAX) is called, data is grabbed using *attribute.getValue("value")* call, afterwhich the value is passed into a +ConversionEntity+ object. Nothing outrageous, just two parallel arrays hold values as follows...

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import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;


public class EntityConversion {
//entity characters
String entityCharacters[]={
"&", "'", "\"", "<", ">", "¡", "¢", "£", "¤", "¥", "¦", "§",
"¨", "©", "ª", "«", "¬", "­", "®", "¯", "°", "±", "²", "³", "´",
"µ", "¶", "·", "¸", "¹", "º", "»", "¼", "½", "¾", "¿", "×", "÷",
"À", "Á", "Â", "Ã", "Ä", "Å", "Æ", "Ç", "È", "É", "Ê", "Ë", "Ì",
"Í", "Î", "Ï", "Ð", "Ñ", "Ò", "Ó", "Ô", "Õ", "Ö", "Ø", "Ù", "Ú",
"Û", "Ü", "Ý", "Þ", "ß", "à", "á", "â", "ã", "ä", "å", "æ", "ç",
"è", "é", "ê", "ë", "ì", "í", "î", "ï", "ð", "ñ", "ò", "ó", "ô",
"õ", "ö", "ø", "ù", "ú", "û", "ü", "ý", "þ", "ÿ"};
//entity names to replace entity characters
String entityNames[]={
"&", "&apos;", """, "<", ">", "&iexcl;",
"&cent;", "&pound;", "&curren;", "&yen;", "&brvbar;", "&sect;", "&uml;",
"&copy;", "&ordf;", "&laquo;", "&not;", "&shy;", "&reg;", "&macr;",
"&deg;", "&plusmn;", "&sup2;", "&sup3;", "&acute;", "&micro;", "&para;",
"&middot;", "&cedil;", "&sup1;", "&ordm;", "&raquo;", "&frac14;", "&frac12;",
"&frac34;", "&iquest;", "&times;", "&divide;", "&Agrave;", "&Aacute;", "&Acirc;",
"&Atilde;", "&Auml;", "&Aring;", "&AElig;", "&Ccedil;", "&Egrave;", "&Eacute;",
"&Ecirc;", "&Euml;", "&Igrave;", "&Iacute;", "&Icirc;", "&Iuml;", "&ETH;",
"&Ntilde;", "&Ograve;", "&Oacute;", "&Ocirc;", "&Otilde;", "&Ouml;", "&Oslash;",
"&Ugrave;", "&Uacute;", "&Ucirc;", "&Uuml;", "&Yacute;", "&THORN;", "&szlig;",
"&agrave;", "&aacute;", "&acirc;", "&atilde;", "&auml;", "&aring;", "&aelig;",
"&ccedil;", "&egrave;", "&eacute;", "&ecirc;", "&euml;", "&igrave;", "&iacute;",
"&icirc;", "&iuml;", "&eth;", "&ntilde;", "&ograve;", "&oacute;", "&ocirc;",
"&otilde;", "&ouml;", "&oslash;", "&ugrave;", "&uacute;", "&ucirc;", "&uuml;",
"&yacute;", "&thorn;", "&yuml;"};

/*****************************************************
*CONSTRUCTOR
****************************************************/
public EntityConversion(){

}

/*****************************************************
*CONVERT ENTITY CHARACTERS
****************************************************/
public String convertEntityCharacters(String tempIdref){
System.out.println("Attempting conversion...");
//temp replacement string
String replaceStr=null;

/*
* for the given string, loop though each entity
* character and replace each with the entity
* name
*/
for(int x=0;x<entityCharacters.length;x++){

// Compile regular expression
String patternStr = "("+entityCharacters[x]+")";

//System.out.print("Find "+patternStr+"\t"); //testing system.out

//value to replace within string
replaceStr=entityNames[x];
// System.out.print("\tReplace with "+replaceStr); //testing system.out

//compile the pattern
Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternStr);
// Replace all embedded entities with
Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(tempIdref);
//replace with entity name
tempIdref = matcher.replaceAll(replaceStr);

// System.out.print("\tnew Results:\t"+tempIdref+"\n"); //testing system.out
}
//return newly modified string
return tempIdref;
}
}

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An assumption of a constant conversion between *Ã* and *ø* is not feasible as this XML data is used for linking in a larger application. Thanks for your help in advance!

Bests,
Goob