It was a matter of adding <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"> in the XML file
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We use a bulk import of an XML file to SQL SERVER 2005 :
DECLARE @xmlFileName VARCHAR(300)
SELECT @xmlFileName = 'C:\myfile.xml'
EXEC('
INSERT INTO _XmlImportTest(xmlFileName
SELECT ''' + @xmlFileName + ''', xmlData
FROM
(
SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET (BULK ''' + @xmlFileName + ''' , SINGLE_BLOB) AS XMLDATA
) AS FileImport (XMLDATA)
')
It works well except when we have accents (in the data, not in the tag name of course) the imports stops with the following error :
Analyse XML : ligne 4, caractère 20, caractère XML non conforme
which disappear as soon as we take out the accentuated character.
So the question is how can we bulk import an XML file with accent datas ?
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by: SQL_SERVER_DBAPosted on 2009-10-21 at 08:42:13ID: 25625111
Look towards the bottom "Character Enconding" Good Luck 3j/s3.bos. html
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/w