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From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam-nospam@-------.--->
To: NULL
Date: 1/3/2008 9:13:00 AM

sarosh.shirazi@g... wrote:
>  The exception comes on the constructor of XPathDocument. I want to
> read the file overlooking the characters like &#0; (UTF-8 encoding).

This isn't a validation issue, but a well-formedness issue. That 
character is not legal in XML; if it is present, your file is simply not 
an MXL file.

Change the code which is generating the XML to avoid putting forbidden 
characters into the document in the first place (if you really need to 
express random binary data, the usual workaround it to encode it as 
something like base-64 before putting it into the XML and decode it 
before using it).

The alternative, as you pointed out, is to prefilter the data before it 
gets to the XML parser. I don't know enough about C# to give you any 
advice, but in Java setting up a filtered input stream is quite 
straightforward.

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