remove escape characters from XML string in java

Question

I have inout XML with following format

<Some_tag>
   <childTag>this is >25000</childTag>
</Some_tag>

the actual XML is very big with +200KB. I am reading this XML in Java. I am getting it as String.

What is solution to remove those > (Special char/escape char) from Tag values?

Answer 1

Use XSLT try something like this

XSLT to remove chars

Or use jaxb move all the xml to beans and remove the non needed chars from the String properties.

Answer 2

XML should be like

<Some_tag>
   <childTag>this is >25000</childTag>
</Some_tag>

easy to parse your parser easily convert &lt; to < and &gt; to >