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XML with French Characters
Jul 26th, 2006 at 1:40pm
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I am trying to open an XML with French characters and I am getting the following error message.

An invalid character was found in text content.
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #1 - Jul 26th, 2006 at 4:00pm
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Do you mean the FlowChart.NET's XmlReader displays that message, or is that related to the XML Viewer tool? And is there an "encoding" attribute in the XML declaration?
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #2 - Jul 26th, 2006 at 5:03pm
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Sorry I posted this to the from one.  I ment to post it to the XML Viewer.

This error message comes up when I try to load an XML that contain French characters.
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #3 - Jul 26th, 2006 at 5:24pm
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Is there an "encoding" attribute in the opening XML tag, and what's its value?
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #4 - Jul 26th, 2006 at 6:06pm
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #5 - Jul 26th, 2006 at 6:43pm
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I opened the XML in UltraEdit and I do not see an encoding tag.  I will email the XML to you.
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #6 - Jul 27th, 2006 at 11:33am
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I am trying to open the file you sent me with Internet Explorer 7 and it gives exactly the same mistake: "An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource." Have you tried this yourself?

This is expected thought, because XML Viewer is acutally based on MS XML DOM, as is Internet Explorer itself. Anyway, I find it particularly weird that the MS DOM is not able to parse the file.

Can you please try loading the file in IE or in any other XML processing appication?

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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #7 - Jul 27th, 2006 at 11:59am
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I tried another XML viewer and it gave me that the file is not well formed.  I then opened up the XML in Ultra Edit and went to where it said the file was  messed up, this is what was in the file:
<DeptFld HoursPosition="1" ApptRequired="false" HoursText="Lun - Dim : FERMÉ"/>
This is how the other viewer was reading it:
<DeptFld HoursPosition="1" ApptRequired="false" HoursText="Lun - Dim : FERM&#482;/>
It looks like the viewers are have trouble with the comination of É".
any thoughts.
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #8 - Jul 27th, 2006 at 12:59pm
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It seems that indeed the character 'É' is messing up things. Maybe you should explicitly specify appropriate encoding in the XML file.

By the way, have you tried loading the XML file in Internet Explorer?

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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #9 - Jul 27th, 2006 at 1:11pm
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Yes I did and I got the same message.
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #10 - Jul 27th, 2006 at 1:18pm
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Add an <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"> to the top of the XML document, save it as an Unicode file, and everything will be ok  8)
  
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Re: XML with French Characters
Reply #11 - Jul 27th, 2006 at 1:43pm
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Thanks a lot. I can open the file now.
I will let our customer know to add this to all of the XML's that they send us.
  
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