Special Character problem in xml object

Question

Hi, Actually I am just a starter of XML. In one of my task, I am doing the following:

var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); 
req.open('GET', 'http://www.mohin.com/test.xml', false);
req.send();  
var xmlObj = req.responseXML;

Now, I am getting the XML as:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <Items status="as">
    <Song title="Helios (Original Mix)">
       <Artist name="Chris Hingher" ID="291728"></Artist>
       <Info StartTime="19:37:39" JazlerID="2219" PlayListerID="" />
    </Song>
    <Song title="I Was Drunk">
       <Artist name="Riva Starr Feat. N�ze" ID="292052"></Artist>
       <Info StartTime="19:45:38" JazlerID="2267" PlayListerID="" />
    </Song>
    .............
 </Items>

You can see that there is a special character in tag's name attribute in the second tag and for that I am getting a parsing error and for this I cant read the XML object. See this tag: <Artist name="Riva Starr Feat. N�ze" ID="292052"></Artist> and look at it's name attribute.

Is there anyone who can give me a solution to this issue? I really need to retrieve each artist name like this:

var info = xmlObj.getElementsByTagName("Song")[0];
var artistName = info.childNodes[j].attributes.getNamedItem('name').nodeValue;

Thanks Mohin

Answer 1

Have you checked the format of encoding of your XML file ? Could come from there.

Answer 2

When you create the XML file, save it using UTF-8 as well as just claiming it is saved using UTF-8.

Answer 3

It looks like the encoding used to save the XML document was not the one specified in the XML prolog (encoding="utf-8"). This can happen if the XML file is edited and saved manually by a dumb editor.

Assuming you can change the XML document, modify the encoding attibute from "utf-8' to "iso-8859-1". If it works, then you should be more careful about the encoding of you XML documents.