Re: [xsl] Problem with encoding UTF-8

[Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there,

Error messages aren't always very accurate. I wouldn't be surprised when xalan throws this message 
when it occurs something it didn't expect.

One thing of which I know it doesn't expect is a UTF-8 BOM sequence at the start of a file. Open the 
data file with in hex mode and look whether it starts with the sequence EF BB BF. If so, you have a 
UTF-8 BOM in your file. You have to get rid of it, or switch to Saxon (or something else?)..

But then again, I'm guessing here...

Cheers,
Geert

David at roamware wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a collegue who is exporting a XML data file from a PDF (yes you can
> do that). He sent me the file, I ran it through my program using Xalan
> 2.5.1, xml-apis and xercesimpl.jar both from 31st July last year and it
> comes up with the very useless message "Premature end of file". Which I
> understand can mean enmcoding problems or XSD missing etc.
>
> If I take the file he sent me and in UltraEdit 32 use the UNICODE/UTF-8 ->
> UTF-8 conversion option save the file and then pop it through my program,
> all works fine. This ambiguous conversion is explained thus "This function
> will convert the complete file from Unicode or UTF-8 (ASCII representation)
> to UTF-8 (with the file internally as Unicode)"
>
> So I am at a bit of a loss to explain what the file format has to do with
> this, the PDF exports the file with the "encoding=UTF-8" in the xml element.
> Any experience of this behaviour and how to get around it? I cannot change
> what the PDF exports so it will have to be a "not strict" switch or
> something on the parser I suppose (couldn't find reference to such a thing
> mind you.).
>
> Thx.
>
> David Wynter

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