Re: Dealing with "special" characters when Parsing XML with RPG

[aec <cfuture@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That "right-quote"/"single-quote" thing threw me off in my first go at 
Ruby on my Mac. Text editor did it but it looked so much like a 
"normal"-to me single quote that I missed it. Took it to a local Ruby 
meetup and somebody had quotes problems before. Done.




On 12/8/15 12:22 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:
> I have a project where I'm parsing some XML data using XML-Sax and running
> into an error (error code 6) from the parser on this character:
>
> x'E28099'
>
> Unicode Character 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019)
>
> The stream file has a code page 1208.
>
> The file has a lot of single quotes that work fine, but this appears to be
> from data entered when someone uses the right quote instead of ' for a
> single quote.
>
> ’ vs ' (not sure if that will post correctly.. the first one is the quote
> symbol causing the issues, the second one parses fine).
>
> I'm not sure if this is a case where I'll need to talk to the trading
> partner to see if they can replace these, or if I'll need to read through
> the xml first and do the replacing myself.  Or maybe trap it in handler and
> replace it and continue on?
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks!
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com