Re: illegal character
Xiao Yang wrote: Ok, I think I know what's going on here. The illegal characters are apos and quotes. I am generating a xml document from a text field in sql server. I am using the JDBC driver from microsoft to get it. the driver probably does not know how to copy apos and quotes and replace them with these illegal xml characters (x19, xc1). my questions now becomes how can I look for and replace these illegal xml characters in the xml document. I am using the xerces parser from apache. Is there a way for the parser to pick up on these illegal characters? I'd try to replace the characters before they are fed into the parser. Are you getting a string containing the XML from the driver? Or some string data? Use replace() on this string. BTW U+00C1 is a valid XML character. J.Pietschmann
Re: illegal character
Xiao Yang wrote: Ok, I think I know what's going on here. The illegal characters are apos and quotes. I am generating a xml document from a text field in sql server. I am using the JDBC driver from microsoft to get it. the driver probably does not know how to copy apos and quotes and replace them with these illegal xml characters (x19, xc1). my questions now becomes how can I look for and replace these illegal xml characters in the xml document. I am using the xerces parser from apache. Is there a way for the parser to pick up on these illegal characters? No way, xml in contrast to html is very picky about syntax. Probably the problem has something to do with encodings, anyway you have to preprocess data form jdbc ResultSet to avoid such binary control chars in a text. -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International Ltd, Israel
Re: illegal character
Hello Ok, I think I know what's going on here. The illegal characters are apos and quotes. I am generating a xml document from a text field in sql server. I am using the JDBC driver from microsoft to get it. the driver probably does not know how to copy apos and quotes and replace them with these illegal xml characters (x19, xc1). my questions now becomes how can I look for and replace these illegal xml characters in the xml document. I am using the xerces parser from apache. Is there a way for the parser to pick up on these illegal characters? thanks pauli --- Oleg Tkachenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure, that's some control character, "Device > Control 3", but certanly it's > illegal charcter in xml 1.0 document (afaik, it's > legal for xml 1.1). > > Xiao Yang wrote: > > Dear Oleg > > > > your right, the apos is ok. but I could have > swore > > the apos was causing the error before. However, I > got > > this error in one of the transformation. do you > know > > what character is? > > > > javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Illegal > XML > > character: . > > > > thanks > > pauli > > > > > > > > --- Oleg Tkachenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Xiao Yang wrote: > >> > >> > >>>>I am using FOP to transform some bio into pdf > >>> > >>format. > >> > >>>FOP generates an error when it encounters an > >> > >>illegal > >> > >>>character such as the apostrophe "'". Where can > I > >>>find a list of illegal characters that FOP does > >> > >>not > >> > >>>accept? I need to replace the illegal character > >> > >>with > >> > >>>their numeric entity reference. > >> > >>What is exactly the error? Apostrophe is not an > >>illegal character at all, but > >>as it's used in xml markup to delimit attribute > >>values, it's kinda special. > >>And you don't need numeric entity reference, > because > >>' is predefined > >>entity. See xml spec for more details: > >>http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax > >> > >>-- > >>Oleg Tkachenko > >>Multiconn International Ltd, Israel > >> > > > > > > > > __ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > > > > > -- > Oleg Tkachenko > Multiconn International Ltd, Israel > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
Re: illegal character
Not sure, that's some control character, "Device Control 3", but certanly it's illegal charcter in xml 1.0 document (afaik, it's legal for xml 1.1). Xiao Yang wrote: Dear Oleg your right, the apos is ok. but I could have swore the apos was causing the error before. However, I got this error in one of the transformation. do you know what character is? javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Illegal XML character: . thanks pauli --- Oleg Tkachenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Xiao Yang wrote: I am using FOP to transform some bio into pdf format. FOP generates an error when it encounters an illegal character such as the apostrophe "'". Where can I find a list of illegal characters that FOP does not accept? I need to replace the illegal character with their numeric entity reference. What is exactly the error? Apostrophe is not an illegal character at all, but as it's used in xml markup to delimit attribute values, it's kinda special. And you don't need numeric entity reference, because ' is predefined entity. See xml spec for more details: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International Ltd, Israel __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International Ltd, Israel
Re: illegal character
Dear Oleg your right, the apos is ok. but I could have swore the apos was causing the error before. However, I got this error in one of the transformation. do you know what character is? javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Illegal XML character: . thanks pauli --- Oleg Tkachenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Xiao Yang wrote: > > > > I am using FOP to transform some bio into pdf > format. > > FOP generates an error when it encounters an > illegal > > character such as the apostrophe "'". Where can I > > find a list of illegal characters that FOP does > not > > accept? I need to replace the illegal character > with > > their numeric entity reference. > What is exactly the error? Apostrophe is not an > illegal character at all, but > as it's used in xml markup to delimit attribute > values, it's kinda special. > And you don't need numeric entity reference, because > ' is predefined > entity. See xml spec for more details: > http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax > > -- > Oleg Tkachenko > Multiconn International Ltd, Israel > __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
Re: illegal character
Xiao Yang wrote: > I am using FOP to transform some bio into pdf format. FOP generates an error when it encounters an illegal character such as the apostrophe "'". Where can I find a list of illegal characters that FOP does not accept? I need to replace the illegal character with their numeric entity reference. What is exactly the error? Apostrophe is not an illegal character at all, but as it's used in xml markup to delimit attribute values, it's kinda special. And you don't need numeric entity reference, because ' is predefined entity. See xml spec for more details: http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax -- Oleg Tkachenko Multiconn International Ltd, Israel
illegal character
Hello, I am using FOP to transform some bio into pdf format. FOP generates an error when it encounters an illegal character such as the apostrophe "'". Where can I find a list of illegal characters that FOP does not accept? I need to replace the illegal character with their numeric entity reference. thanks pauli __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com
