I have document which contains the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<event>
<selections categ="more">
<selection type="Total Cards" sel_id="305655" sel_stat="active" price="5" sel_name="Vålerenga"></selection>
</selections>
</event>

When I load the document, it gives me an error as it contains the special character in "Vålerenga".

I have tried the declaration as <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>, however it still the same.

How should I handle this characters as well as Chinese (unicode) characters?