RE: [xsl] SAXON Fatal Error UTF-8 sequence (character code: 0x63)

["Chris Bayes" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,
If you have perl you can do

perl -e"open(FH,$ARGV[0]);binmode FH;$s=join('',<FH>);print substr
$s,0,33064;" offending_file.xml

Which will print the first 33064 bytes

Ciao Chris

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Mike Ferrando
> Sent: 21 December 2001 15:54
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [xsl] SAXON Fatal Error UTF-8 sequence 
> (character code: 0x63)
> 
> 
> Michael,
> So the number "33064" is how many bytes from the beginning of 
> the document the error occured? Is it possible to figure out 
> where that would be?
> 
> Mike F.
> 
> --- Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > As a result, I knew it must be a character problem but I didn't
> > know
> > > where to look in the document because the column and line numbers 
> > > were so wacky. Is there a way to decipher this error location
> > when it
> > > happens so I won't have to do the same thing again?
> > >
> > > > >   Line:   -1
> > > > >   Column: 33064
> > >
> > > I read somewhere that this is a binary location. Does that mean I 
> > > could translate it (from however saxon is giving the location)
> > and
> > > find out where it is in my document? (Hey, I am really trying to 
> > > figure out how saxon comes up with this location.)
> > 
> > Basically, AElfred has to translate bytes into characters before it 
> > can work out where the line endings are. If a failure occurs while 
> > doing that
> > translation, then it can't give you the line and column number, so
> > instead
> > it just gives you the byte offset in the file.
> > 
> > Mike Kay
> > 
> > 
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