Comments on: Cleaning UTF-8 Streams for XML Parsing http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/2010/02/07/cleaning-utf-8-streams-for-xml-parsing/ Tue, 10 May 2011 09:14:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Jason http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/2010/02/07/cleaning-utf-8-streams-for-xml-parsing/#comment-39 Jason Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:43:18 +0000 http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/?p=611#comment-39 I realised I have missed out one important invalid character - the NULL byte (x00). I'll update the regular expressions when I get a chance. I realised I have missed out one important invalid character – the NULL byte (x00). I’ll update the regular expressions when I get a chance.

]]> By: Jason http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/2010/02/07/cleaning-utf-8-streams-for-xml-parsing/#comment-38 Jason Wed, 05 Jan 2011 10:42:17 +0000 http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/?p=611#comment-38 Sorry Visu - I have no experience of Java to help with any migration. Sorry Visu – I have no experience of Java to help with any migration.

]]> By: Visu http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/2010/02/07/cleaning-utf-8-streams-for-xml-parsing/#comment-37 Visu Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:27:22 +0000 http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/?p=611#comment-37 Hi Jason... Thanks for the post. I need java version of the reg ex to filter the in-valid xml characters , as you said i also came across hat not all valid UTF-8 characters are in fact valid in well-formed XML, please help me... Hi Jason…
Thanks for the post.
I need java version of the reg ex to filter the in-valid xml characters ,
as you said i also came across hat not all valid UTF-8 characters are in fact valid in well-formed XML,

please help me…

]]> By: teo http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/2010/02/07/cleaning-utf-8-streams-for-xml-parsing/#comment-36 teo Sat, 14 Aug 2010 21:19:40 +0000 http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/?p=611#comment-36 Thank you so much for this! It really helped preparing some string for importing into magento using its soap api. Really feel like the poster above! :) Thank you so much for this!
It really helped preparing some string for importing into magento using its soap api.
Really feel like the poster above! :)

]]> By: Jason http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/2010/02/07/cleaning-utf-8-streams-for-xml-parsing/#comment-35 Jason Wed, 26 May 2010 11:25:27 +0000 http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/?p=611#comment-35 Glad you found it useful Leon. If you find any bugs, just post them here and I'll get them included. Now I've come back I realise the code is not formatting properly in the post, but the downloadable version should still be okay. -- Jason Glad you found it useful Leon. If you find any bugs, just post them here and I’ll get them included.

Now I’ve come back I realise the code is not formatting properly in the post, but the downloadable version should still be okay.

– Jason

]]> By: leon http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/2010/02/07/cleaning-utf-8-streams-for-xml-parsing/#comment-34 leon Tue, 25 May 2010 11:39:15 +0000 http://www.consil.co.uk/blog/?p=611#comment-34 This is superb thanks for sharing this, it's made my day. I had been hit by this problem using simple_xml with some third party xml which it refused to parse due to the invalid characters. Just using iconv or utf8_encode did not do the job and like you was also surprised to learn about the well formed UTF-8 problem. Other solutions I found removed too many characters but yours worked a treat. Keep up the blogging and thanks again. This is superb thanks for sharing this, it’s made my day.

I had been hit by this problem using simple_xml with some third party xml which it refused to parse due to the invalid characters. Just using iconv or utf8_encode did not do the job and like you was also surprised to learn about the well formed UTF-8 problem. Other solutions I found removed too many characters but yours worked a treat.

Keep up the blogging and thanks again.

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