CDATA section not being ignored by the parser

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I'm reading some XML files containing CDATA sections. Now, the problem is that the XML parser (in NET 1.1) is giving me the following error: [XmlException: There is an invalid character in the given encoding. Line 12, position 6.] The error is inside a CDATA section. More specifically, the character in question is an Š letter (but there are tons of other diacritics as well). I thought CDATA sections are completely ignored by the parser. Any ideas?

The relevant code is <![CDATA[some text here ]]>

The encoding for the XML file is UTF-8. Is that what you mean? — dsp_user, Feb 01 '13 at 13:41
The code fails on the Load method XmlDocument xmlDoc = newXmlDocument(); xmlDoc.Load(Server.MapPath("Docs.xml")); — dsp_user, Feb 01 '13 at 14:00
Solved! I removed the UTF-8 encoding from the XML and replaced every instance of an illegal character with an appropriate escape sequence. — dsp_user, Feb 01 '13 at 16:04
Could you try with this: XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument(); xmlDoc.Load(new StreamReader(Server.MapPath("Docs.xml"), Encoding.UTF8)); — Cédric Bignon, Feb 01 '13 at 16:11
No, that doesn't work. I don't get any errors but the special characters are not displayed at all. While I now have a working solution, it's not very elegant so possibly some of you out there could come up with something that I'd use instead. Thanks — dsp_user, Feb 01 '13 at 18:43
CDATA sections are not ignored by the parser. They are just parsed as text even if it would look like markup. — jasso, Feb 13 '13 at 01:50
Yes, thank you. BTW, It was a stupid mistake on my part. I used Notepad to edit XML files but didn't save them as UTF-8 (or Unicode). Notepad, by default, saves files as ANSI. — dsp_user, Feb 13 '13 at 20:33

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '15 at 13:50

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If the data in CDATA section is of the format of ${a_b:pp} it is throwing error. It is coming as a variable whose value is not defined in the Logic. It will throw parsing exception. What you can do is to give space between $ and other text.

answered Jan 22 '15 at 13:50

Sanjeev

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CDATA section not being ignored by the parser

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