CDATA XML is truncated while parsing

Question

Hi,

I'm using a SAX parser (on android) to parse an xml file from an WebService. On some elements the CDATA is truncated and not complete, e.g. the XML-file contains data like

 <name><![CDATA[Gölsder und Ginck GmbH]]></name> 

and after parsing the xml file with

public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
   throws SAXException {
   super.characters(ch, start, length);
   String text = new String(ch, start, length);

the text only contains "Gölsder und Gin" (the first 15 characters). I debugged it with eclipse and i see that the whole string is not contained in the "char[] ch" argument of the method. so the parsing itself seems to have an error

Answer 1

I've had this problem, too. The thing is that the characters() method can be called multiple times on the same element. In your case, if you were to write this:

public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
   throws SAXException {
   super.characters(ch, start, length);
   String text = new String(ch, start, length);
   Log.d("XMLTEST", text);
}

You would probably get two log messages, one Gölsder und Gin and one ck GmbH.

In conclusion, you need to have member variables that you concatenate when receiving new characters.