Urgent-An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource

right now i am getting this Invalid at the top level of the document. Error processing resource 'http:/....

Can you post the XML which is giving you the error?

i cant post the xml here but is it possible i can send u thru email? sorry for asking this. as i cannot paste here for security reasons

Contacting through email is against board policy ... However there are a couple of options

a) You can upload the file somewhere and post the link here. You can remove the file once your problem has been solved.
www.ee-stuff.com provides space for this purpose.

b) You can edit the file to replace some names and post the relevant sections here.

ok i dont why i get this error again on the browser
An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource

can xml spy identify where in the xml is that invalid character. just help me know how to identify where is the char...

It could be that you have an unsupported character encoding of the file.  Make sure it's UTF-8.

Basically you need to ensure that there are no invalid characters and encoding is right. Did you create the file using an editor like notepad that does not support encoding?
Do you have a line like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
at the start of your document?

i saved using xml spy.
here are the starting lines
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- edited with XMLSpy v2006 U.... -->
<!-- edited with XML Spy v4.1 U (http://www.xmlspy.com) -->
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://serYU/gerixx.xslt"?>
<EnsDocument xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

infact this is the xml file which is giving that error
whose start is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<FunGreat xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
----followed by other nodes.
anything amiss

could any of these chars a problem
µ
A
*
^
-1?

ok its confirmed one of the above is a problem. would anyone be able to help know 2 things
1. which of the above is a problem and which document can help identify this?
2. how can an editor save such a file?how can i make sure that if i enter such characters in my xml they are valid or not.

> It could be that you have an unsupported character encoding of the file.  Make sure it's UTF-8.

That is the wrong advice, this is obviously a different encoding

It seems that you created the file in XML-Spy, then this should not happen,
I assume that you cut and pasted some part of the text in a different editor or through a script.
The µ likely is the problem, there is no single byte representation for µ in UTF-8 and there is in ISO Latin
Basically you are indicating the wrong encoding in your XML

Try replacing <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
using a text editor, not XML Spy

That could solve your issue in the short run, but you should be more cautious constructing your XML and making sure you label it with the right encoding.
If you are mixing bits from different encodings (which usually creates a mess) you should transform everything to UTF-8 before bringing stuff together

hope this helps

Geert

hi geritone thanks for the reply.
so you mean to say if put encoding="ISO-8859-1" then µ will be accepted? which of the two iso or utf provides a wide range of accpeted characters?
i mean is it that if i use utf some 29 characters will be considered invalid by parser whereas if i use iso standard then only 10 will be considered invalid?

also cant we know beforehand when we save the xml in the editor that a particular character is invalid
appreciate your reply

ok...2 more ques
1. wouldnt any xml editor be able to identify this b4hand?
2.can i put something like hex#### ... etc in my XML such that its parsed? but then does it mean i cant see those characters as µ? i am not sure how to deal with it

1. yes, I would be very surprised that XML-Spy would allow you to add characters in the wrong encoding in your XML, but then again, XML Spy is not very good at all (nice interface on top of a buggy non standardized core)... If you can take a recommendation... use www.stylusstudio.com instead)

2. well, you could escape every character if you want
µ would be &#x03BC;
that would be the same, regardless of the encoding, since it is the unicode number (note this one takes 8 bytes)
I often do that: use ISO-8859-1, and use the entities to ecape unsupported characters
you could view the XML in IE to see that you have the correct escape

cheers

Geert

is stylusstudio a freeware? i also used oxygen for sometime...but they ve license only for a month..extendable only 1 more time.
thanks for all the detailed explaination

no, that is something you need to buy (but that is money well spent)
oxygen isn't freeware either, but somewhat cheaper.
I use both with a lot of pleasure

cheers

Geert

you have purchased both?

correct, I have enterprise and professional licenses for both
no need to go into detail, but I like both for different purposes
and I want to be thorough in testing with multiple environments
before I deliver something. Plus they are both good at different tasks
(oxygen can be slow on XPath in very big files for example
but has a better Berkeley DB XML interface, Stylus has pipelines, Oxygen has modules, Stylus makes it easier to work with profiles and has some GUI advantages, Oxygen works better with small unsaved samples)

but one out of two would be fine for you

cheers

Geer

:-) thanks...u really are an xml expert!