Marshalling special characters with Apache XML Beans

I have a schema which I use XmlBeans to umarshall to Java objects. I have no control over the the data that comes through.

One such field looks like <Name>Barnes & Noble</Name>.

Parsing fails at th开发者_如何学Goe character & with lexical error. Is there a way to specify an option while parsing XML files to ignore some special characters?

Any help you could provide will be great.

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No. This is invalid XML. Ampersand must be escaped into "&".

You can manually escape all ampersand before parsing it as XML but that may mess up other XML entities.

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You can parse <Name>Barnes & Noble</Name>as XPL and then feed it into any XML process. XPL is just like XML except that it allows XML's special characters in text elements.

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You can use XmlOptionCharEscapeMap.

From the javadocs:

This class is used to set up a map containing characters to be escaped. Characters can be escaped as hex, decimal or as a predefined entity (this latter option applies only to the 5 characters defined as predefined entities in the XML Spec).

For example:

  XmlOptionCharEscapeMap escapes = new XmlOptionCharEscapeMap();
  escapes.addMapping('A', XmlOptionCharEscapeMap.HEXADECIMAL);
  escapes.addMapping('B', XmlOptionCharEscapeMap.DECIMAL);
  escapes.addMapping('>', XmlOptionCharEscapeMap.PREDEF_ENTITY);

  XmlOptions opts = new XmlOptions();
  opts.setSaveSubstituteCharacters(escapes);