Re: XML Into

Hi Steve,

The strange characters you see are known as a "byte order mark". They have nothing to do with an IPL, they are data that's added to the file by whatever tool created it.

Byte order marks (BOMs) are part of the Unicode standard. They were designed originally for UCS-2/UTF-16 character sets so that a tool reading the file could distinguish between big-endian and little-endian numbers in those double-byte formats.

Perhaps strangely, a BOM was eventually added for UTF-8 as well. It's strange because UTF-8's byte order is well-defined, and never changes. But, it was added as a way to distinguish UTF-8 from other forms of Unicode automatically. (Most systems do not have a CCSID, or it's equivalent, in their file system, so the only way to distinguish different character sets is by the contents of the file.)

The Unicode standard *specifically* says that you should not use a BOM in UTF-8 as a general rule, because it will defeat one of the major advantages of UTF-8: compatibility with basic ASCII formats.

Anyway, I know that IBM i does have some support for BOMs, but without researching it, I don't remember what release/PTF level you need to be at, or how they work.

Make sure your file is marked with the proper CCSID (I asked for that information in my last message, but you didn't provide it in your reply.) Based on the BOM you posted, your data is probably CCSID 1208.

If having it marked as 1208 doesn't cause the BOM to be handled properly, I'd contact IBM, see if there are PTFs that will help.



On 12/22/2010 7:28 AM, sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Scott:

When I compare the files from yesterday to previous ones, the new ones
have  appended in the front. When viewing with xml editor it doesnt
appear but viewing with a hex editor it does. We did IPL yesterday,
could that have possibly changed something? If I remove that from the
file, it does process.


Steve Jones





Re: XML Into

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Hello sjones,

According to the Information Center, error code 302 is:

The parser does not support the requested CCSID value or
the first character of the XML document was not '<'.

Have you looked at your file? Which CCSID is it marked with? If you
take the hex value of the first character in the file, does it match the
hex value of the< character in the specified CCSID?

Or, are you overriding to a different CCSID in your program? If so,
does the first character in the file match the hex value of the
overridden-to CCSID?


On 12/21/2010 3:50 PM, sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Today I started getting the following error The XML parser detected

error

code 302

This program has ran for the last week without any issues. Anyone have
some thoughts on what is causing this? The xml file is residing on the
IFS