Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

Hi

I have an xml file containing the following tag

<custom name="custom1">
    <value>acqTypeMaxNumber[Line](plot);imageSelection[Line](plot);imagePositionSet1[Line];imagePositionSet2[Line];imageSet[Surface]</value>
</custom>

Previously I was using j2se 1.4.7, and this was not a problem to parse.
Now, after uprading to j2se 5.0, this can no longer be parsed.
I am using a class with the following structure for the parsing:

public class SaxParser extends DefaultHandler {

    public static void parseXmlFile(File input, String schemaLoc, DefaultHandler handler)  throws Exception {
		
            // Create a builder factory           
            SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
            factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
            factory.setValidating(true);
            
            // Create a parser and parse the xml file.
            SAXParser parser = factory.newSAXParser();            
            parser.parse(input, handler);
    }

    public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
                             String qName, Attributes atts)  {
            // Do stuff
    }

    public void characters(char[] buf, int offset, int len) throws SAXException {
        name = new String(buf, offset, len).trim();
            // Do stuff
    }

    public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String sName, String qName) throws SAXException {
            // Do stuff
    }

    private void setAttributes(SchemaElement e, Attributes atts) {
            // Do stuff
    }
    
    private boolean anyNextToFound(String name) {
            // Do stuff
    }    
}

What I see is that the characters method is being called once for every square bracket in the value tag, and once for all characters after and before the square bracket.

I have tried, without success, to write the tag using CDATA, i.e. looking like this:

<value>![CDATA[acqTypeMaxNumber[Line](plot);imageSelection[Line](plot);imagePositionSet1[Line];imagePositionSet2[Line];imageSet[Surface]]]</value>

I have searched a lot on the internet without finding anything concerning this problem.
Does anyone have a clue of what's going on here?

Any help at all is appreciated.