Android XML parsing issue using DOM parser

Question

I am trying to parse the following using Dom parser in Android.

<offerURL>
http://statTest.dealtime.com/DealFrame/DealFrame.cmp?bm=553&BEFID=93767&aon=%5E1&MerchantID=434524&crawler_id=1909400&dealId=TCk4NTG97Aa3wSQgh2U3FQ%3D%3D&url=http%3A%2F%2Frover.ebay.com%2Frover%2F1%2F707-64686-24023-0%2F2%3Fipn%3Dpsmain%26icep_item_id%3D190622592957%26icep_vectorid%3D260601%26kwid%3D1%26mtid%3D637%26crlp%3D1_260601%26kw%3D%7Bquery%7D%26query%3D%7Bquery%7D%26linkin_id%3D%7Blinkin_id%7D%26sortbid%3D%7Bbidamount%7D%26fitem%3D190622592957%26mt_id%3D637&linkin_id=7000251&Issdt=120323134700&searchID=p2.77722a731149145f60fa&DealName=Samsung+B2100+Outdoor+In+Schwarz+%28black%29+Orig.+Neuware&dlprc=89.95&crn=&istrsmrc=1&isathrsl=0&AR=1&NG=3&NDP=6&PN=1&ST=7&DB=sdcprod&MT=phx-pkadu-intl-dc20&FPT=DSP&NDS=&NMS=&MRS=&PD=95929320&brnId=14863&IsFtr=0&IsSmart=0&DMT=&op=&CM=&DlLng=7&RR=1&cid=&semid1=&semid2=&IsLps=0&CC=0&SL=0&FS=1&code=&acode=538&category=&HasLink=&frameId=&ND=&MN=&PT=&prjID=&GR=&lnkId=&VK=
</offerURL>

For parsing I am using following code :

Node node = .....
String nodeName = node.getNodeName();
if (nodeName.equalsIgnoreCase("offerURL")) {
    String offerUrl = node.getFirstChild().getNodeValue()
    Log.d("offerUrl => " + offerUrl);
}

It works fine but the value of <offerURL> tag is getting truncated. The value of variable offerUrl printted in log cat is "http://statTest.dealtime.com/DealFrame/DealFrame.cmp?bm=553"

Not sure what exactly the issue is. Please help.

litterbugkid · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-23 18:08:28Z

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& is a predefined entitiy in XML and must be represented in a special way. In the URL, if you change all the & to & that should work.

Predefined entities in XML will tell you all the predefined entities in XML and how to represent them.

edited Mar 23, 2012 at 18:08

answered Mar 23, 2012 at 18:00

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2 Comments

Vishal Vyas Over a year ago

Thanks Neeta for quick reply. I was previously using following code for parsing: document = documentBuilder.parse(inputStream); Then, I changed the parsing method to this:

String responseString = convertStreamToString(responseStream); InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(new StringReader(responseString)); document = documentBuilder.parse(inputSource);

using this technique the & were replaced with & as you said. But still I am experiencing the same issue.

Vishal Vyas Over a year ago

In the convertStreamToString method I used following statement: BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream,"UTF-8"));

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