Invalid XML character

[Mark]

Hello,

I'm doing some data manipulation using an XML parser and am getting the
following error message:

Character reference "&#22" is an invalid XML character.

Any thoughts upon what this character could be? I've looked at all instances
of "22" and "#" in the data I've got and can't find any obviously wrong with
any of them.

I'm guessing it's a rogue control character or similar somewhere, but I'd be
grateful if someone could identify what it is I should be looking for!

Thanks in advance,

Mark

 

[Martin Honnen]

I'm doing some data manipulation using an XML parser and am getting the
following error message:

Character reference "&#22" is an invalid XML character.

Any thoughts upon what this character could be? I've looked at all instances
of "22" and "#" in the data I've got and can't find any obviously wrong with
any of them.

I'm guessing it's a rogue control character or similar somewhere, but I'd be
grateful if someone could identify what it is I should be looking for!

XML 1.0 excludes certain control characters and  is one of those, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets
This has changed in XML 1.1, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#charsets
but so far most parsers only support XML 1.0.

 

[Mark]

XML 1.0 excludes certain control characters and  is one of those, see

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets
This has changed in XML 1.1, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#charsets
but so far most parsers only support XML 1.0.

I see. Any idea where I could find the ASCII equivalent of &#22? (I need to
amend a script so that this control character is removed whilst I'm
importing this data)

Thanks,

Mark

 

[Martin Honnen]

I see. Any idea where I could find the ASCII equivalent of &#22? (I need to
amend a script so that this control character is removed whilst I'm
importing this data)

If you write you are using a numeric character reference in XML
where the number is the Unicode of the character. So the Unicode
character with code 22 is what you are looking for and for the codes
0..127 Unicode describes the same characters as ASCII.

 

[Mark]

If you write you are using a numeric character reference in XML

where the number is the Unicode of the character. So the Unicode
character with code 22 is what you are looking for and for the codes
0..127 Unicode describes the same characters as ASCII.

Thank you very much for your help.

Mark

 

[Richard Tobin]

Character reference "&#22" is an invalid XML character.

Any thoughts upon what this character could be?

It's control-V, but the message implies that it's appearing as a character
reference ().

My guess is that it's a typo for " which would be a double quote
character.

-- Richard