Android XmlPullParser UTF-8 problem

Question

I have an XML document built with

org.xmlpull.v1.XmlSerializer

This document contains following XML prolog

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>

When I try to parse this document using

import org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParser;

with following configuration code

XmlPullParser pullParser = Xml.newPullParser();
pullParser.setInput(theInputStream, "utf-8");

I get undecoded utf-8 strings when I call

String text = pullParser.getText();

So it seems that XmlPullParser in Android (I use 1.5) doesn't support utf-8. Did I miss something?

Thank you in advance.

frogatto · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-20 14:31:26Z

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Not sure if it matter but can you try two things

Use UTF-8 instead of lower case

And

Try using pullParser.setInput(theInputStream); and seeing if the pullparser can determine the encoding on it's own.

edited Oct 20, 2014 at 14:31

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David Green Over a year ago

pullParser.setInput(theInputStream); did the trick for me - it seems that the BOM is correctly handled by XmlPullParser when using an InputStream

Nick · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-30 02:12:17Z

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This question is old but I recently ran into the same issue using XMLPullParser. In my case, I was parsing a stream of UTF-8 encoded XML from an OkHttp ResponseBody. It was necessary for me to specify the input encoding charset for this to work. In case someone else lands here:

override fun convert(response: ResponseBody): ArchNewsFeed? {
        val encoding = Charsets.UTF_8.name()
        val factory = XmlPullParserFactory.newInstance()
        factory.isNamespaceAware = true;
        val parser = factory.newPullParser()
        parser.setInput(response.byteStream(), encoding)
        ...

    }

answered Oct 30, 2020 at 2:12

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