On Thu, April 6, 2006 7:35 am, Erne wrote: > as of the malformed xml error I'm sure I've seen that before > but just can't remember what caused it and how I solved it > > maybe some bad char like CHR(0) in the data string...
YES! That's exactly what it turned out to be (well, chr(1) among others). Basically, control characters. Don't know how they got in the user's data, but deleting them seems to cause no harm. I tried encoding them into entities but got an "illegal entity" error by the parser -- apparently the only control characters allowed in XML are tabs, line feeds, and carriage returns. Very odd. I've created a bug report for the inaccurate line number report problem: seumnocm -- Marc Zeedar Publisher REALbasic Developer Magazine http://www.rbdeveloper.com _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
