RE: MSXML - Processing non standard characters

Just declaring the file's encoding as UTF-8 doesn't make it UTF-8.  And it
doesn't help to declare the encoding of the XSL file if that isn't the file
causing the problem.  If you really can't change the XML document, and its
encoding parameter doesn't accurately describe its actual encoding, your
only recourse is to harass the authors of the offending document until they
produce a corrected version.  (If the "special characters" you mention are
accented vowels, then the document's encoding is probably ISO-8859-1, so its
header would need to be <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>.)

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Warren Keane [mailto:Warren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: August 1, 2001 14:58
To: Xsl-List@Lists. Mulberrytech. Com (E-mail)
Subject:  MSXML - Processing non standard characters


I am trying to transform an HTTP XML document which contains special
characters using MSXML. I receive the following error when the
transformation occurs:
 
XML Error loading '' 
An invalid character was found in text content.

I have no control over the format of the XML document. The XML document has
<?xml version="1.0"?>in the first line. Microsoft's site says: Re-encode the
XML data as proper UTF-8. 
 
I added the following to my XSL file but it still doesn't work: <?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
 
Since I can't change the original XML file, how can I resolve this problem.
 
Any help is appreciated, thanks.

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