how to deal with xml parsing for invalid character use in URL for getting result

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i am able to do xml parsing for valid character but when i pass invalid character from my URL string then there no result found but when i pass that web service url from my browser then result is found.so i think problem in parsing for invalid character for doing sax xml parsing ,so how to overcome from this problem ,means how to deal with invalid character means in url http://www.arteonline.mobi/iphone/output.php?st=&ct=&type=Clínicas%20y%20Talleres&neigh=
for type attribute i pass type=Clínicas where 3rd character is not an English alphabet ,its in Spanish so how to deal with this Spanish

character. my code is below....

                  @Override
        protected Boolean doInBackground(String... args) {
              try{ 
                  try {



                     String temp = "http://www.arteonline.mobi/iphone/output.php?st="+filter.stateselected+"&ct="+filter.cityselected+"&type="+filter.typeselected+"&neigh="+filter.neighbourselected+"";
                        //String temp = "http://www.arteonline.mobi/iphone/output.php?st=&ct=&type=Clínicas%20y%20Talleres&neigh=";

                      temp = temp.replaceAll(" " ,"%20");
                      //  temp= temp.replaceAll("í" ,"í");
                        SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
                        SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
                        XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();
                        Log.i("temp url..",temp.trim().toString());
                        URL sourceUrl = new URL(temp.trim());
                        XMLHandlerfiltersearch myXMLHandler = new XMLHandlerfiltersearch();
                        xr.setContentHandler(myXMLHandler);
                        xr.parse(new InputSource(sourceUrl.openStream()));

                    } 
                     catch (Exception e) {
                     System.out.println("XML Pasing Excpetion = " + e);
                    }

i replace space in my url if any by using temp = temp.replaceAll(" " ,"%20");

but i could not deal with Spanish character in type attribute in my web service url .pls help.....

also check for type=Galerías when pass from web service url.. in this 6th charaacter is not valid..

Have you looked at using `UrlQuerySanitizer` http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/UrlQuerySanitizer.html ? — Seph, Nov 02 '11 at 09:48
@seph i dont know how to use UrlQuerySanitizer for url can u explain it more ,i have seen ur given link also.. — shyam, Nov 02 '11 at 09:52
hi ingsaurabh i think problem should be with Spanish character because on parsing result is not found u can see it on ur browser by running it on ur system and also parse my given url using sax ....thanks for helping me... — shyam, Nov 02 '11 at 11:30
@ingsaurabh problem in url when i pass spanish charracter value from thr Type attribute in url..pls see it...thanks — shyam, Nov 02 '11 at 12:42
@ingsaurabh done i will post my code soon...any way thanks alot u suggest me to go right way.... — shyam, Nov 04 '11 at 05:53
@ingsaurabh pls refer my new que. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8005375/display-default-value-when-i-nothing-selected-from-spinner-array-android — shyam, Nov 04 '11 at 05:54

Chiara · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-02T17:01:47.730

You should use URLEncoder:

String stateselected= URLEncoder.encode(filter.stateselected, "UTF-8");
String cityselected = URLEncoder.encode(filter.cityselected, "UTF-8");
String typeselected= URLEncoder.encode(filter.typeselected, "UTF-8");
String neighbourselected= URLEncoder.encode(filter.neighbourselected, "UTF-8");
String temp = "http://www.arteonline.mobi/iphone/output.php?st="+stateselected+"&ct="+cityselected+"&type="+typeselected+"&neigh="+neighbourselected+"";
//String temp = "http://www.arteonline.mobi/iphone/output.php?st=&ct=&type=Clínicas%20y%20Talleres&neigh=";

if you have problems with the character encoding when parsing the XML you could set the encoding used by the parser:

InputSource is = new InputSource(sourceUrl.openStream());
is.setEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
xr.parse(is);

may be is another encoding. I still don't know if your problem is with the call or with the parsing ... Do you receive the XML into your SAXHandler? — Chiara, Nov 03 '11 at 18:36

how to deal with xml parsing for invalid character use in URL for getting result

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