Re: XML-SAX *XML_EXCEPTION event and reported parsed length question

Forgot to reply to list!!!

Henrik

What does XML-SAX do with this input? If y ou use XML-SAX, do you use the ccsid=ucs2 option?

BTW, I'm now looking at the SQL XMLTABLE approach - it takes it all in nicely from an IFS file tagged as 1208, converts to EBCDIC where it can, and gives me x'3F' otherwise - all with no errors at all for parsing.

Vern

On 7/12/2017 6:12 AM, Henrik Rützou wrote:

Vernon,

here is a trick:

Change the xml-file to cssid 819 then you should be able to read the XML.

Now you have UTF-8 garbage in some XML "text" fields but they can be handle.



On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Nathan

One problem - we are at 7.1 - I don't think I have an easy way to get long
enough variable in UTF-8 in RPG - but I could do what I do now - read the
IFS into a variable without text conversion. Then find any problematic
characters.

I just don't think that is practical - there are almost 8,000 valid UTF-8
byte strings in a table I'm using now, I don't think I want to go looking
through the XML for byte strings I want to eliminate - some of these are
possible valid.

My main question was, do I understand what is happening, and is there some
way to know the byte= position where the problem occurred.

Cheers
Vern


On 7/11/2017 5:55 PM, Nathan Andelin wrote:

Vern,

If the XML parser is having trouble with certain characters, my
inclination
would be to read the XML data (i.e. file) and filter out unwanted
characters before feeding the stream to the parser. By filter, I mean only
allowing characters within a certain Hex or Decimal range into the output
stream.

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