[xep-support] invalid bytes

[Jim Mott]

The Unicode value for a copyright symbol is 0x00A9 (two bytes). Did you convert your XML to UTF-8 encoding? And does the actual encoding of the XML agree with the encoding stated in the XML header (encoding="UTF-8").  If the header says UTF-8 and the XML is not UTF-8, Saxon should flag this in the XSL stage.

Jim Mott
Publishing Data Managment, Inc.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Hamacher, Eric 
  To: xep-support at renderx.com 
  Sent: March 26, 2009 1:07 PM
  Subject: [xep-support] invalid bytes


  Hello:

   

  I have a valid XML and a valid XSL file which I transformed into a FO using Saxon.  However, XEP is stumbling on some characters like 0xa9 (which is a copyright symbol) and giving the following output.  How can I instruct XEP to handle these bytes?   Thanks.

   

  C:\XEP>xep -valid -fo c:\temp\XXXXXXXX_fo.xml -pdf c:\temp\XXXXXXXX_pdf.pdf

  (document [system-id file:/c:/temp/XXXXXXXX_fo.xml]

    [error] Fatal parse error: file:/c:/temp/XXXXXXXX_fo.xml: : invalid UTF-8 byte

   (check the XML declaration) (code: 0xa9)

  )

  Parse error: invalid UTF-8 byte (check the XML declaration) (code: 0xa9)

   

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