Android SAXParser Malformed XMl error

Question

I have a server component which uses SAXParser (javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory) to parse an XML. I am reusing this library in my phonegap app for android. The problem is that when I use the library to communicate to the server and parse the response from the server, it fails with - Malformed XML - exception. However, if I use the same library from normal Java program, the response from the server is processed fine by the parser and there is no error. I compared the XML payloads in both android and normal javacase and they are exactly the same. I know that this is a very vague and strange question with very little to go on but I am out of ideas. Any ideas or hints would be helpful.

Answer 1

Is there a DTD or namespace in that XML? It may be possible that the android app has a problem with those and fail to parse because of that. (Is there an exact error message?)

You may check what are the differences between the parsers by checking

• isNamespaceAware()
• isValidating()

There might be a difference. If there is, use SAXParserFactory#setNamespaceAware() and SAXParserFactory#setValidating() to set the same values.