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Re: Mysterious 'invalid character'
- From: Jörg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:10:58 +0100
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Mysterious 'invalid character'
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Can you view the file with IE? What about encoding and German umlauts?
Joerg
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.
>
> The cursor is at the end of a line. No invalid character there that I would
> be aware of.
>
> I had a similar problem before, where (after hours) it turned out that the
> offending character apparently was the line-feed itself. When I deleted it,
> and re-inserted it, everything was suddenly fine.
>
> However, this didn't work this time round. When I delete the line-feed (and
> the line-feeds before) I still get the error message and the cursor moves
> further up, and up... (and always hovers at the end of the line).
>
> Has anybody encountered the same problem and knows a solution for this
> annoying problem?
>
> Ingo Mittendorf
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