RE: Mysterious 'invalid character'

Ingo Mittendorf wrote:

> I'm mystified by a problem that arises when I want to generate HTML from XML
> with XMLSpy (with the MSXML parser).
> 
> The relevant file *is* well-formed, apparently, and XMLSpy's Browser View
> (direct display of the XML file) works absolutely fine. However, when I want
> to generate 'true' HTML, I get this error message:
> 
>     This file is not well-formed.
>     An invalid character was found in text content.
> 

I've also had this problem. I found it when doing a command line transformation using Xalan which tells me what the illegal character is. Then, as has been suggested, used a Hex Editor to find the offending character.

The problem, I am fairly confident, is caused by XML Spy. I'm yet to reliably duplicate it, but each time it does occur I've created the XML file from scratch within XML Spy.

Joshua

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