[FX.php List] Illegal characters in FMPro's XML

[Michael Layne]

Thanks for the explanation/information.  You know plenty more than I do 
about XML.  That may have been one of my problems way back.

Very good to know.


On Jan 19, 2005, at 8:45 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:

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> Michael Layne wrote:
>> Another possibility (I've seen a similar error many times) is that
>> FX.php is set to use cURL (= true).  , when your version of PHP 
>> doesn't
>> support it. If you switch to false, that error goes away.  look for
>> this around line 486 or 436 (from memory...) you can set at line 99 in
>> the latest version of the class.
>
> Well, in my case there really is a bad character -- I can load the XML 
> request straight into Mozilla and get the same XML parsing error, and 
> I can cut-and-paste the character it from the field in FileMaker into 
> a text editor, save it to a file, and hex dump it.
>
> The bad character is an 0x15; I'm not really sure how it got there 
> originally, but it seems to be somehow garbled from what should have 
> been a greater-than-or-equal-to sign. Replacing it with the correct 
> character works around the problem as well, until the day when another 
> record gets slipped a bogus control character and FileMaker sends 
> unparseable XML down the wire again...
>
> (A side note: the current version of FX.php doesn't die() on an XML 
> parse error, but actually stops parsing and returns an error object. 
> Script execution continues, but I've still got no data to work with 
> unless I remove the bad character.)
>
> - -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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