Norwegian language in XML

[Craftor]

Hi all

I'm retrieving a value from a site and it gets passed back (very kindly) as an XML document. The ony problem is that, because it is a Norwegian site, most of the documents contain Norwegian characters - which my local XML document is rejecting as invalid characters.

Is there any way to get around this?

Thanks as always

Craftor

 

[cian]

Hi,

i've created documents in Gaeilc, Norwegian should not be any problem. Just make sure to use character code for special characters.

I have a list if it helps:
Common Character Entity References

http://www.endamcg.com/main/guides/char-ref.htm

ASCII Numeric Character Reference 0-800

http://www.endamcg.com/main/guides/ascii-char.htm

(not plugging my page, its just the handiest link to pose for reference)


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[Craftor]

Hi cian

Unfortunately the problem is not creating the document - its that the document being passed is containing what my parser sees as 'invalid' characters.

From what I could gather from the Microsoft reference, there should be some entry in the top of my document refering to either an ISO encoding or a text/html encoding?

It didn't make too much sense to me and didn't work when I tried it :-(

Thanks
Craftor

 

[cian]

Have you specified the language in your document?


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[Craftor]

I've tried specifying ISO-8859-1 and 2 but to no avail *cross*

It's almost as if it's ignoring all my specifications and just returning it as plain text *shrug*

 

[cian]

It's over my head, but I would suggest that you also specify the language code, not just the encoding. See if it helps.

Hopefully someone else will have the solution.


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[chiph]

If you leave the encoding off the document, it's supposed to default to UTF-8. If that isn't happening, try putting the encoding on:

<?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?>
<rootnode>
</rootnode>

Chip H.

 

[Craftor]

Hi all

Thanks for all the suggestions - found out what the problem was ...

In C# we were using ServerXMLHTTP which does not allow for different encoding types *grrrrr*

O well back to the drawing board and thanks again guys for taking the time.

Have a good monday morning!