XML special characters

Hi,

I have some code that generates an xml string. For some reason, when I try to use special characters the xmlread function is not able to read it back in:

clear();
clc();

docFactory = javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
docBuilder = docFactory.newDocumentBuilder();
doc = docBuilder.newDocument();
stuff = doc.createElement('stuff');
stuff.setAttribute('value','ó'); % If a regular character is used, it works fine
doc.appendChild(stuff);
factory = javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory.newInstance();
transformer = factory.newTransformer();
writer = java.io.StringWriter();
result = javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult(writer);
source = javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource(doc);
transformer.transform(source, result);
writer.close();
xml = char(writer.toString())

jString = java.lang.String(xml);
readOut = xmlread(java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(jString.getBytes()));

This is the xml string that gets generated:

xml =

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><stuff value="ó"/>

This is the error it gives me:

[Fatal Error] :1:53: Invalid byte 2 of 4-byte UTF-8 sequence.

??? Java exception occurred:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Invalid byte 2 of 4-byte UTF-8 sequence.

  at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(Unknown Source)

  at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(Unknown Source)

  at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(Unknown Source)

Error in ==> xmlread at 98
parseResult = p.parse(fileName);

Error in ==> scr_xml_encoding at 20
readOut = xmlread(java.io.ByteArrayInputStream(jString.getBytes()));

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Do you have any idea of how to fix it?

Thanks, Joan

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

You will probably have to use native2unicode() to build the value to set() as the attribute. In MATLAB, 'ó' is just a 16 bit value, spanning the first 65536 unicode code points; you need to do a UTF-8 encoding of it.

[Joan Puig]

Hi Walter,

Thanks for your answer. I looks like native2unicode() could be used to get the expected results, but I have tried a few combinations and was not able to get it working. Could you please be a little bit more specific?

Thanks,

Joan

Answer 2

[Silvia Muñoz Polo]

Hi, I have the same problem. The native2unicode() function works at Matlab environment but the generated xml file can't be edited. Any idea to solve this problem? Thanks.