Ajax response and accented characters

[simafe_2000]

Hello.

  I am using richfaces to build my application. Using the <a4j:log/> tag, I can see that  the ajax responses containing accented characters (italian characters) give errors during the parsing of xml

error[16:05:47,851]: Error parsing XML
error[16:05:47,851]: Parse Error: Document is empty

The same request/response, using data without accented characters works fine. The document is NOT empty.

The content-type of the response is  "Response with content-type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8"
I have checked using XMLSpy that the response is a well formed xml file.

   Any idee how to fix this error?
   Any help will be highly appreciated.
   Thank you.

Best regards,
Felix

[simafe_2000]

Hello

I have found the problem and its solution.
The accented characters were represented by the HTML's special symbols (à, è, etc). But in XML "&" is a reference to an entity. Those entities were not defined in my xml. The solution was to prepend their definition to my xml, like this:

<!DOCTYPE newsletter [
><!ENTITY nbsp " ">
<!ENTITY lt "<">
<!ENTITY igrave "ì">
...
myxml

Best regards,
Felix