Re: XML Into

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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:
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> 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.
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> Steve Jones
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> Hello sjones,
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> According to the Information Center, error code 302 is:
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>       The parser does not support the requested CCSID value or
>       the first character of the XML document was not '<'.
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> 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?
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> 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?
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> 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