I am programming an XML reader in VB.NET 2005 and it works fairly well.
Once in a while though I encounter an old XML file without the header
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
It craps out on the Load with an error similar to "Invalid character in the
given encoding. Line 3, position 5475070".
After some research the character in question is the copyright character. My
question is how can i force the reader to assume UTF-8?
It seems like my other newer files do not have this problem, just my older
files. I want to be able to catch this error
and then attempt to load the file. It also seems like this older file does
not have a BOM so Im assuming the XML reader has no idea how to interpret
it. Im hoping i can force a UTF-8 read of the XML file.
As a secondary question, it seems like these older XML files were
originally written out as one or two huge lines. is there a way to output a
copy
that is more user readable in the node-type format with line breaks and all?
Thanks for any help
AGP
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"AGP" <si**********@s ofthome.netschr ieb:
Once in a while though I encounter an old XML file without the header
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
It craps out on the Load with an error similar to "Invalid character in
the given encoding. Line 3, position 5475070".
After some research the character in question is the copyright character.
My question is how can i force the reader to assume UTF-8?
It seems like my other newer files do not have this problem, just my older
files. I want to be able to catch this error
and then attempt to load the file. It also seems like this older file does
not have a BOM so Im assuming the XML reader has no idea how to interpret
it. Im hoping i can force a UTF-8 read of the XML file.
IIRC UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML files.
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"AGP" <si**********@s ofthome.netschr ieb:
>Once in a while though I encounter an old XML file without the header
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
It craps out on the Load with an error similar to "Invalid character in
the given encoding. Line 3, position 5475070".
After some research the character in question is the copyright character.
My question is how can i force the reader to assume UTF-8?
It seems like my other newer files do not have this problem, just my
older files. I want to be able to catch this error
and then attempt to load the file. It also seems like this older file
does not have a BOM so Im assuming the XML reader has no idea how to
interpret it. Im hoping i can force a UTF-8 read of the XML file.
IIRC UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML files.
ok so then why do i get the error? I did a test and loaded the XML into
notepad
and then saved that file as Text UTF-8 and it seems that file is read
correctly. So my
question is why does the original not load properly?
AGP
"AGP" <si**********@s ofthome.netschr ieb:
>IIRC UTF-8 is the default encoding for XML files.
ok so then why do i get the error? I did a test and loaded the XML into
notepad
and then saved that file as Text UTF-8 and it seems that file is read
correctly. So my
question is why does the original not load properly?
Maybe it's stored in an encoding other than UTF-8, Windows ANSI, for
example.
--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
AGP wrote:
I will ask but the source could be from a variety of providers so I may end
up
with no concrete answer as to whats used for encoding. However i did open
the file in Notepad and added the XML declaration and then just did a plain
old save and the file still errors out. But in my mind of there is no
declaration then
the functions assume a UTF-8 correct? But not sure why if this is the case
why
I still get an error.
Try whether using
New StreamReader("f ile.xml", Encoding.Defaul t)
works with those files.
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