From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-10-22T20:44:54+09:00
Subject: Re: UTF8 Validator (xml) ?

Peter Fitzgibbons <peter.fitzgibbons@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I have a Rails app that is outputting xml for use with a Xerces
> org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner.
> First, if you happen to know an active forum for Xerces, please tell,
>
> Second, the error messaging from the scanner tells me that I have a "Invalid
> byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence."
> That's nice, but I have no way to tell _what_ byte is in violation.
>
> SO, if you have any reference to what might qualify as a "UTF8 Validator",
> please tell. Clearly Java and Ruby have different definitions of UTF8.
>
> BTW: the file I'm testing wtih loads back into REXML::Document just fine.

Idea: take the string, sanitize it with Iconv + UTF-8//IGNORE, then
byte-wise compare.

> Thanks for your advice!
> Peter Fitzgibbons

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