On Jan 3, 8:06=A0pm, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
> sarosh.shir...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I'm facing an illegal character problem when I read anXMLfile. Below
> > code was used to do the reading.
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 XmlReaderSettings settings =3D new XmlRe=
aderSettings();
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 settings.CheckCharacters =3D false;
>
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 string fXmlFileName =3D _FilePath;
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 XmlReader reader =3D XmlReader.Create(fX=
mlFileName,
> > settings);
> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0XML=3D new XPathDocument(reader);
>
> > =A0The exception comes on the constructor of XPathDocument. I want to
> > read the file overlooking the characters like &#0; (UTF-8 encoding). A
> > solution pointed out to me was to parse it manually by reading it in
> > ascii and replacing the characters but this damages my performance
> > level so i want to avoid it. Any suggestion in this regard would be
> > most welcome... How can i avoidvalidation???
>
> If you set CheckCharacters to false then the XmlReader allows character
> references like &#0; so I am not sure why you get a parse error. Are you
> sure you have characters references like &#0;? If you have such
> characters literally in the document then CheckCharacters set to false
> does not help. In that case theXMLAPIs do not help at all, you need to
> preprocess the document to get rid of those characters.
>
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To Joseph: It's part of the requirement that such characters would
come up...so i'll have to bear the heck :)
To  Martin: Yeah these characters are coming up literally in the
file...
Is there any way other than ascii preprocessing or preparsing. I know
the tags which shall have these chars. Can i somehow have these
particular tags and their data simply ignored in XML?