Re: Again: unicode character error parsing an encoded base64 string (Solution found)

[Thomas Heitzmann <th...@she.net>]

Hello folks,

I've found the solution by the following reply to a similiar question:

>An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0xfc) was found in the element content
of the document.
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>  Author: Johannes Koch (koch@pixelpark.com)
>Date: Jul 16 2001 6:25AM
>Sources: comp.text.xml

>Volkmar Nissen schrieb:
>>
>> I got that message parsing a XML document with character
encoding='UTF-8'
>> (Using xalan 2.1, xerces 1.4)
>> the XML document  contains '#' characters. After removing this
characters
>> from the document, everything works fine.
>>
>> AFAIK, the '#' character is a allowed character in a XML document. So I
>> don't know, why  this message is generated.

>'#' is Unicode 0x23. 0xfc is ''. Perhaps the encoding for the character
>'' is not in utf-8 as you posted, but in iso-8859-1.
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In my case I have to declare the document as "iso-8859-1" and the image
data encoded on base64 passes the XML parser without any error.


Thomas Heitzmann wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> I tried to transfer image data via xml by encoding this data on the
> base64
> algorithm.
>
> This should be the usual way to handle binary data passing an
> XML-Parser,
> in my case this is the xerces SAX -Parser (version 1.4.2).
>
> For the first time, the image data passes completly the
> characters-method,
> so I can extract the image succesfully after base64 decoding.
>
> But after passing the character data the parser answers with an illegal
> unicode character error (for example 0xFD)
>
> I tried to declare the document data as UTF-8 with no success.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Thomas

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