> 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. >
If you are not using Java 6, you can use Apache Commons Lang StringEscapeUtils (org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils) to escape the XML. I use this for our XML with JDK 5. -Rick
