Hello Cam, Are you writing your xml by hand, as in no xml writer? That can cause problems. In your exception it says "latitude 59&", the & should have converted to '&'(I think). If you can use Java6, there is a XMLStreamWriter in java.xml.stream that does automatic special character escaping. This can simplify writing simple xml.
Unfortunatly the stream writer does not filter out invalid xml characters. So I will point you to a helpful website: http://cse-mjmcl.cse.bris.ac.uk/blog/2007/02/14/1171465494443.html Hope this helps. Brian Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2008, 19:23 +0300 schrieb Cam Bazz: > Hello, > > I made a simple java program to convert my pdfs to text, and then to xml > file. > I am getting a strange exception. I think the converted files have some > errors. should I encode the txt string that I extract from the pdfs in a > special way? > > Best, > -C.B. > > EVERE: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: entity reference names can not > start with character ' ' (position: START_TAG seen > ...ay\n latitude 59& ... > @80:64) > at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.parseEntityRef(MXParser.java:2212) > at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1275) > at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.next(MXParser.java:1093) > at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.nextText(MXParser.java:1058) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.readDoc(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:332) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.update(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:162) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.handleRequestBody(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:84) > at > org.apache.solr.handler.RequestHandlerBase.handleRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:77) > at org.apache.solr.core.SolrCore.execute(SolrCore.java:658) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.execute(SolrDispatchFilter.java:191) > at > org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrDispatchFilter.doFilter(SolrDispatchFilter.java:159) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1089) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:365) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:211) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139) > at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:285) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:502) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:835) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:641) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:208) > at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:378) > at > org.mortbay.jetty.bio.SocketConnector$Connection.run(SocketConnector.java:226) > at > org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:442)
