Chris wrote:
> Hi, I'll definately need some help on this one.
> 
> I'm using VS.NET(C++). When using the following code to load xml from a file,
>  an exception was thrown and complaining about an invalid character.
> 
> MSXML2::IXMLDOMDocumentPtr pXMLDom;
> HRESULT hr;
> 
> CoInitialize(NULL);
> hr= pXMLDom.CreateInstance(__uuidof(DOMDocument30));
> 	
> if (FAILED(hr)) 
> {
> 	printf("Failed to instantiate an XML DOM.\n");
> 	return -1;
> }
> 
> pXMLDom->async = VARIANT_FALSE; // default - true,
> 
> if(pXMLDom->load("problem.xml")!=VARIANT_TRUE)
> {
> 	printf("Failed to load problem.xml:\n%s\n",
> 		(LPCSTR)pXMLDom->parseError->Getreason());
> 	return -1;
> } 
> 
> My xml file has this set: encoding="UTF-8", and I'm using MSXML3.dll.

Then the file probably contains byte sequences that aren't legal UTF-8. 
Can you post an example?

> My puzzle is I can open the same xml file with IE without any error. Why is 
> this inconsistency? 

If you have all service packs applied, IE should display a warning in 
the status bar. In doubt, simply verify with a different parser.

> My second problem is, if I load the same xml content from memory directly 
> into DOM, an exception (0xE0000001) will be thrown and won't propergate to 
> my C++ try and catch. How can I set it so that I can catch this type of 
> error using try and catch?

Best regards, Julian