Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

While trying to parse a common xml file, sax works perfeclty. However, when the character set in the xml file is UTF-8, it hangs in all the & # xxx ; codes (where xxx is a number). It doesnt actually hang but it crops the text, saying that it's start position is in the & instead of just after the > (and the white spaces)

I just thought that one way out is to search if the preceding characters are the &... sequences and then look behind for the previous >... and so on
This is quite a crapy way out

Any other way? Anyone has come across this?

Thanks in advance

Guilherme