I assume the original XML was in an variable length field/variable and not
only the data but also the 2 leading bytes which include the length of the
data in Binary Format are send.
x'EFBBBF' = 15711167
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Stephen Landess
Sent: Wednesday, 20 November 2024 04:40
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: xml file with invalid characters at the start of the stream
file
Don -
that's a BOM (Byte Order Mark)
This may shed some additional light on the subject:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44098326/ef-bb-bf-at-the-beginning-of-js
on-files-created-in-visual-studio
Regards,
Steve
Don Brown wrote:
I am sure I have seen this question asked before but searching has not found
it.
We are using httpapi to retrieve a list of files that is returned in xml The
xml file saved to the ifs has the following leading characters that then
results into xml-into failing.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> In case these characters get
corrupted in the email / forum they are hex x'EFBBBF'
A valid xml file must start with a < so we can't just blank these characters
out.
And xml-into does not allow a substring that I have found.
So if I can't stop the invalid characters how would I shift the contents of
the stream file left by 3 characters or I expect there is a better option ?
Thank you to any suggestions or examples.
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