Illegal Characters in XML document

[Duncan Welch]

Hi,

I'm using the XmlTextReader to read a badly formatted XML document from a
URL (it has no <?xml tag) on a remote website (not mine). About halfway
through, I get an Illegal Character exception, which I'm assuming means that
the default encoding type is wrong.

Does anyone know a way to override the encoding type on the XmlTextReader?

Thanks in advance,

Duncan

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I'm using the XmlTextReader to read a badly formatted XML document from a
URL (it has no <?xml tag) on a remote website (not mine). About halfway
through, I get an Illegal Character exception, which I'm assuming means that
the default encoding type is wrong.

Does anyone know a way to override the encoding type on the XmlTextReader?

Well, you could download the document and then use a StreamReader to
convert the encoding. That might not be the problem though - it might
be something like a < within text (instead of &lt. I'd try to look at
the place where the error occurs to check before going to too much
other trouble.

 

[Shakir Hussain]

The default encoding type on the XmlTextReader is UTF-8, if no encoding type
is specified in the xml file.

Try this to change the default encoding type

//open a file stream
FileStream fstream= new FileStream(@"c:\myXml.xml, FileMode.Open,
FileAccess.Read);

//initialize a XmlParsercontext and specify the encoding type
XmlParserContext myParserContext = new XmlParserContext(null, null, "",
XmlSpace.Default, System.Text.Encoding.UTF7);

//init XmlTextReader
XmlTextReader xtr = new XmlTextReader(fstream, XmlNodeType.Document,
myParserContext );