SAXParser

Read UTF-8 XML File in Java using SAX parser example

In the previous SAX parser tutorial we saw how to parse and read a simple XML File. If your file had UTF-8 encoding, there is a chance that the client produced a MalformedByteSequenceException. In order to solve this you have to set the InputSource encoding to UTF-8.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
You can do this with the following code :

InputStream inputStream= new FileInputStream(xmlFile);
InputStreamReader inputReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream,"UTF-8");
InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(inputReader);
InputSource.setEncoding("UTF-8");

Here is the XML File we are going to use for our demo. We have the special UTF-8 character ©.

testFile.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><company>

	<employee id="10">
		<firstname>Jeremy</firstname>
		<lastname>Harley</lastname>
        <email>james@example.org</email>
		<department>Human Resources</department>
		<salary>2000000</salary>
	    <address>34 Stanley St.©</address>

	</employee>

	<employee id="2">
		<firstname>John</firstname>
		<lastname>May</lastname>
		<email>john@example.org</email>
		<department>Logistics</department>
		<salary>400</salary>
	    <address>123 Stanley St.</address>
	</employee>

</company>

MyHandler.java:

package com.javacodegeeks.java.core;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler;

public class MyHandler extends DefaultHandler {

	boolean tagFname = false;
	boolean tagLname = false;
	boolean tagEmail = false;
	boolean tagDep = false;
	boolean tagSalary = false;
	boolean tagAddress = false;

	public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
			Attributes attributes) throws SAXException {

		if (attributes.getLength() > 0) {

			String tag = "<" + qName;
			for (int i = 0; i < attributes.getLength(); i++) {

				tag += " " + attributes.getLocalName(i) + "="
						+ attributes.getValue(i);
			}

			tag += ">";
			System.out.println(tag);

		} else {

			System.out.println("<" + qName + ">");
		}

		if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("firstname")) {
			tagFname = true;
		}

		if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("lastname")) {
			tagLname = true;
		}

		if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("email")) {
			tagEmail = true;
		}

		if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("department")) {
			tagDep = true;
		}

		if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("salary")) {
			tagSalary = true;
		}

		if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("address")) {
			tagAddress = true;
		}

	}

	public void characters(char ch[], int start, int length)
			throws SAXException {

		if (tagFname) {
			System.out.println(new String(ch, start, length));
			tagFname = false;
		}

		if (tagLname) {
			System.out.println(new String(ch, start, length));
			tagLname = false;
		}

		if (tagEmail) {
			System.out.println(new String(ch, start, length));
			tagEmail = false;
		}

		if (tagDep) {
			System.out.println(new String(ch, start, length));
			tagDep = false;
		}

		if (tagSalary) {
			System.out.println(new String(ch, start, length));
			tagSalary = false;
		}

		if (tagAddress) {
			System.out.println(new String(ch, start, length));
			tagAddress = false;
		}

	}

	public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
			throws SAXException {

		System.out.println("</" + qName + ">");

	}

}

ParseUTF8XMLFileWithSAX.java:

package com.javacodegeeks.java.core;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

public class ParseUTF8XMLFileWithSAX {

	private static final String xmlFilePath = "C:\\Users\\nikos7\\Desktop\\filesForExamples\\testFile.xml";

	public static void main(String argv[]) {

		try {

			SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
			SAXParser saxParser = factory.newSAXParser();

			File xmlFile = new File(xmlFilePath);

			InputStream inputStream= new FileInputStream(xmlFile);

			InputStreamReader inputReader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream,"UTF-8");

			InputSource inputSource = new InputSource(inputReader);
			inputSource.setEncoding("UTF-8");

			saxParser.parse(inputSource, new MyHandler());

		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}
}

Output:

<company>
<employee id=10>
<firstname>
Jeremy
</firstname>
<lastname>
Harley
</lastname>
<email>
james@example.org
</email>
<department>
Human Resources
</department>
<salary>
2000000
</salary>
<address>
34 Stanley St.©
</address>
</employee>
<employee id=2>
<firstname>
John
</firstname>
<lastname>
May
</lastname>
<email>
john@example.org
</email>
<department>
Logistics
</department>
<salary>
400
</salary>
<address>
123 Stanley St.
</address>
</employee>
</company>

 
This was an example on how to read UTF-8 XML File in Java using SAX parser.

Nikos Maravitsas

Nikos has graduated from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. During his studies he discovered his interests about software development and he has successfully completed numerous assignments in a variety of fields. Currently, his main interests are system’s security, parallel systems, artificial intelligence, operating systems, system programming, telecommunications, web applications, human – machine interaction and mobile development.
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