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[Loris Bennett <>]

Hi Gary,

In my source.xml I have 'ä'. In hex it is C3A4, so the file is UTF-8. It
is maybe somewhat surprising that this works, since there is no
<?xml>-tag with the encoding.

Are there any external dependencies which play a role in XML parsing
which could vary from platform to platform? I am running 64bit Debian
etch.

Anyway, thanks for correcting the problem.

Loris

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 16:17 +0100, GW Brown, Information Systems and
Computing wrote:
> Hi Loris,
> 
> I think I've fixed this now - in CVS. The code which exports group and stem 
> attributes was 'escaping' the output, but the source name was not being 
> escaped.
> 
> I modified:
>       private void _writeSubjectSourceMetaData(Source sa)
> in XmlExporter so that name is escaped - id was escaped already.
> 
> this.xml.internal_puts("name=" + Quote.single( XML.escape(sa.getName()) ) 
> );
> 
> Out of interest, what did you have in sources.xml - ä or &#228;? When I 
> tried ä SourceManager would not parse sources.xml.
> 
> Gary
> 
> --On 11 September 2008 12:24 +0200 Loris Bennett 
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > An import of an export from Grouper gave me the following error:
> >
> >     [java] [Fatal Error] export-cats-and-dogs.xml:145:30: Invalid byte 2
> > of 3-byte UTF-8 sequence.
> >
> > Looking at the XML, I see that different encoding is used for the umlaut
> > in the 'name' attribute of the 'source' tag to that used for the
> > contents of the 'description' tag.
> >
> >       <source id='fub'
> >         name='Freie Universität Berlin'
> >
> > class='edu.internet2.middleware.subject.provider.JDBCSourceAdapter'
> >       >
> >         <subjectType name='person'/>
> >       </source>
> >     </subjectSourceMetaData>
> >   </metadata>
> >   <data>
> >
> >     <!-- 'fub' -->
> >     <stem extension='fub'
> >       displayExtension='FU Berlin'
> >       name='fub'
> >       displayName='FU Berlin'
> >       id='148c85b9-9ed8-4721-b33b-65c71025f938'
> >     >
> >       <description>Freie Universit&#228;t Berlin</description>
> >
> > Replacing the 'ä' with '&#228;' allows the import to succeed.
> >
> > Is this a known issue?
> >
> > Loris
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Loris Bennett
> > Computer Centre
> > Freie Universität Berlin
> > Berlin, Germany
> >
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------
> GW Brown, Information Systems and Computing
>