[jdom-interest] raw bytes turned into string and inserted into xml

[Bart Read]

Hi again Jeff,


Just had a little scout around and found a base 64 encoder / decoder on
Sourceforge, check out the following URL:

http://iharder.sourceforge.net/base64/

Cheers,
Bart


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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Singer" <jeff.singer at vine.co.za>
To: <jdom-interest at jdom.org>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 2:47 PM
Subject: [jdom-interest] raw bytes turned into string and inserted into xml


> Hi all,
>
> I have a situation in which my applications input is a raw stream of
> bytes, these bytes are actually ascii strings which occassionaly will
> contain characters which are illegal to xml like 0x4, 0x0, 0x1 - quite a
> few in this range. I use the string constructor which takes an encoding
> to form them into java.lang.String objects. This works fine, I then
> insert them as content onto a JDOM Element object and eventually after
> building up my document I use an XMLOutputter to convert the DOM to an
> XML string. This also works fine, where the problem lies is when the app
> that accepts the xml string I have generated tries to parse the xml. It
> throws JDOMException because the xml contains an invalid xml character
> in xml's that were created from byte streams which contained characters
> in the range already mentioned.
>
>
> Sample App attached
>
> Any help/ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Jeff Singer


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