XPathDocument and hex 0x1A

[CV]

I am trying to extract specific fields out of XML documents using
XPathDocument & Xpath. The basic code outline is as follows:

try {

...//Load file as XpathDocument ..

XPathDocument xp = new XPathDocument(filename, System.Xml.XmlSpace.None);

//Select the required nodes..

....

}

catch(Exception e)

{

errlog.WriteLine("\nERROR :{0}", e.Message);

errlog.WriteLine("ERROR TARGETSITE: {0}", e.TargetSite);

errlog.WriteLine("ERROR SOURCE: {0}", e.Source);

}

While processing some of those files, I get an error. The error (from the
catch statement) is as follows:

ERROR: '', hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character. Line 1, position
31425.

ERROR TARGETSITE: Int32 ScanContent()

ERROR SOURCE: System.Xml

The input XML files are generated by software from a third-party vendor. Is
there a way to ignore the 0x1A character? How can I continue processing such
files? Is there some property of XPathDocument that allows you to bypass
these characters? I looked in MSDN/Google, but couldn't find anything.

All suggestions/help appreciated.

thanks!

[Mickey Williams]

0x1A is not a valid character for an XML document, so the file is not an XML
document. Legal characters below 0x20 are:
0x9, 0xA, 0xD

See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#charsets

--
Mickey Williams
Author, "Microsoft Visual C# .NET Core Reference", MS Press
www.servergeek.com

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I am trying to extract specific fields out of XML documents using
XPathDocument & Xpath. The basic code outline is as follows:

try {

..//Load file as XpathDocument ..

XPathDocument xp = new XPathDocument(filename, System.Xml.XmlSpace.None);

//Select the required nodes..

...

}

catch(Exception e)

{

errlog.WriteLine("\nERROR :{0}", e.Message);

errlog.WriteLine("ERROR TARGETSITE: {0}", e.TargetSite);

errlog.WriteLine("ERROR SOURCE: {0}", e.Source);

}

While processing some of those files, I get an error. The error (from the
catch statement) is as follows:

ERROR: '', hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character. Line 1, position 31425.

ERROR TARGETSITE: Int32 ScanContent()

ERROR SOURCE: System.Xml

The input XML files are generated by software from a third-party vendor. Is there a way to ignore the 0x1A character? How can I continue processing such files? Is there some property of XPathDocument that allows you to bypass
these characters? I looked in MSDN/Google, but couldn't find anything.

All suggestions/help appreciated.

thanks!