Re: XML whackyness

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Tony Proctor wrote:

How are you looking at the file Frank? Assuming these to be the special
3-byte sequence identifying the file content as UTF-8 then I would not
expect them to be visible in, say, Notepad. It automatically filters them
out and uses them to decide how the rest of the file data should be
interpreted (i.e. as UTF-8 rather than the default ANSI character set).

Similarly, you don't need to do anything special when loading the XML file
with MSXML since it interprets those bytes for you

We rely on this feature a lot, but we've never had to filter anything out
ourselves. It all works pretty well for us.


Well, if you actually read the file contents into a string and then pass it to xmlDoc.Load, it generates an error.

Out of interest, how are you generating these files?


I am not generating them. They come from some entity outside of the company (don't know really).

       Tony Proctor

"Frank Rizzo" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Every now and then when I open an XML file, I'll see various
miscallaneous characters before the first less-than bracket.  Like today
I've seen ascii 254 and 255, yesterday I saw .  What are these
characters?  Are they garbage?  Can I ignore them?  The reason I am
asking is because there is a routine that reads the text from XML file
into memory and passes me the string.  When the string has these whacky
characters, domDocument.LoadXml method fails.

Thanks






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