Subject: Re: [xsl] Mysterious 'invalid character' From: "Ingo Mittendorf" <Ingo.Mittendorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 19:37:06 -0000 |
Thanks for your reply, David, and Peter Hunsberger's as well. I have in fact just run my file through emacs (completely escaped my mind that I could try that as well). Emacs gives me an error message for the same line ("non-SGML character number 11"). However, although the line is right, it gives me col. 89. There are only 4 characters (letters) on that line though. There's a similar trouble spot later on, with col. 48, and again only 4 characters on that line; same environment, BTW (underscore = cursor): </p>_ <p> There are many many more of these character sequences though, without errors. I'm sorry if I'm moving into non-XSL territory here. I've been trying to find something useful on non-SGML characters, but it wasn't very helpful. Where can I find out more about this? Ingo ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [xsl] Mysterious 'invalid character' > > My file is well-formed and valid against the DTD when I check it (within > > XMLSpy). No error message there. > > are you sure that isn't also using the same msxml parser with the same bug? > > > What am I supposed to look for? > > a character in the ascii control range below space (32) that > isn't a tab (9) carrage return or line feed (10 or 13). > > Any reasonable editor will show these in some form or other. > > > Also try a different parser, for example the excellent (and free) rxp > parser says, if I try to add a control-B to a file: > > > > $ rxp -s bad.xml > Error: illegal character <0x2> immediately before file offset 11 > I/O error on stream <file:///c:/tmp/bad.xml>, ignore further errors > > > > > which tells you what the bad character is (#x02) and where it is (11 > characters into the file) > > rxp is a trivial download/install or you can run it online (on small > examples, to be kind to their server:-) > > http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~richard/rxp.html > > David > > _____________________________________________________________________ > This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet > delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further > information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call > Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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