I would use a library like Jsoup for this purpose. I tested the following below and it works. I don’t know if this helps. It can be located here: http://jsoup.org/download
public static void main(String args[]){
String html = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><foo>" +
"<bar>Some text — invalid!</bar></foo>";
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(html, "", Parser.xmlParser());
for (Element e : doc.select("bar")) {
System.out.println(e);
}
}
Result:
<bar>
Some text — invalid!
</bar>
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