RE: [xsl] SAXON Fatal Error UTF-8 sequence (character code: 0x63)

["Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>]

Hi,

check whether your file starts with a UTF8 Byte Order Mark. Old versions of
(the XML parser in) Saxon didn't expect this, and I think the error would
used to look similar (Saxon 6.5 seems to work right).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Mike Ferrando
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 3:51 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: [xsl] SAXON Fatal Error UTF-8 sequence (character code:
> 0x63)
>
>
> Michael,
> I did have the encoding specified in both the xml and the xsl
> documents (below). You book helped me to realize the value of doing
> this despite the utf-8 default.
>
> As a result, I knew it must be a character problem but I didn't know
> where to look in the document because the column and line numbers
> were so wacky. Is there a way to decipher this error location when it
> happens so I won't have to do the same thing again?
>
> > >   Line:   -1
> > >   Column: 33064
>
> I read somewhere that this is a binary location. Does that mean I
> could translate it (from however saxon is giving the location) and
> find out where it is in my document? (Hey, I am really trying to
> figure out how saxon comes up with this location.)
>
> Thanks,
> Mike F.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"?>
> <!DOCTYPE C01>
> <C01>
> ....data
> </C01>
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
> ...html and templates...
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
>
> --- Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> > It means your file is in a non-UTF-8 encoding (probably iso-8859-1)
> > but it
> > doesn't contain an XML declaration that says so. Add an XML
> > declaration
> > specifying the correct encoding and all should be well.
> >
> > Mike Kay
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> > > Mike Ferrando
> > > Sent: 20 December 2001 19:59
> > > To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> > > Subject: [xsl] SAXON Fatal Error UTF-8 sequence (character code:
> > 0x63)
> > >
> > >
> > > Friends,
> > > I have been doing just fine using Saxon to parse my xml
> > documents.
> > > But now I am getting an wierd error. (below) Can anyone tell me
> > how I
> > > can fix this?
> > >
> > > Mike F.
> > >
> > >
> > > C:\WORKSHOP\BATCH>c:\workshop\saxoninstant\saxon.exe -w0 -o
> > > ..\documents\Edison
> > > -INStst.html ..\documents\Edison-INStst.xml
> > > ..\shared\styles\Myxmltools10.xsl  "
> > > filename=Edison-INStst"
> > > Fatal error reported by XML parser: bad continuation of
> > multi-byte
> > > UTF-8 sequenc
> > > e (character code: 0x63)
> > >   URL:    file:/C:/WORKSHOP/documents/Edison-INStst.xml
> > >   Line:   -1
> > >   Column: 33064
> > > Error
> > >   org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: bad continuation of multi-byte
> > UTF-8
> > > sequence (
> > > character code: 0x63)
> > > Transformation failed
> > >
> > > C:\WORKSHOP\BATCH>pause
> > > Press any key to continue . . .
> > > UTF-8 sequence (character code: 0x63)
> > >
> > >
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