I encountered the same issue and managed to find a solution by implementing the following code, which I developed and it worked perfectly:
public static void removeEscapeCharacter(File xmlFile) {
String pattern = "(\\\"([^=])*\\\")";
String contentBuilder = null;
try {
contentBuilder = Files.toString(xmlFile, Charsets.UTF_8);
} catch (IOException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
}
if (contentBuilder == null)
return;
Pattern pattern2 = Pattern.compile(pattern);
Matcher matcher = pattern2.matcher(contentBuilder);
StrBuilder sb = new StrBuilder(contentBuilder);
while (matcher.find()) {
String str = matcher.group(1).substring(1, matcher.group(1).length() - 1);
try {
sb = sb.replaceFirst(StrMatcher.stringMatcher(str),
StringEscapeUtils.escapeXml(str));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
try {
Writer output = null;
output = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(xmlFile, false));
output.write(sb.toString());
output.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
If you encounter a similar problem in the future, handle it by removing special characters and parsing again.
try {
doc = db.parse(fileContent);
} catch (Exception e) {
removeEscapeCharacter(file);
doc = db.parse(file);
}
This approach may be effective for your situation.