topic Invalid character in Alfresco Archive

Invalid character

cburghardt — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:26:09 GMT

In an repositoryService.update() call I get the following error: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character(Unicode: 0x1c) was found in the element content of the document.I know that this character is indeed illegal in XML but the question is how to get around this. I can't simp

Re: Invalid character

cburghardt — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:07:25 GMT

I have some more information regarding this. The error occurs in RepositoryService.create(CMLCreate) and seems to be a problem with unicode characters. When I create content and set the name or any of the NamedValue properties to a string encoded with KOI8-R I get this exception. I consider this a bug in the Webservice as there is definitely no 0x1e (control character RS) in the data that I set. This is Alfresco 2.1.

Re: Invalid character

cburghardt — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:20:48 GMT

Replying again to myself just in case somebody else stumbles over this. I've modified the Webservice client to pass the correct encoding (not UTF-8 but e.g. KOI8-R) to the Call object of Axis (CHARACTER_SET_ENCODING). That way I can transfer the correctly encoded characters to the server (I checked this with tcpmon). But then I get error messages about other illegal characters like 0x1 once the content is parsed on the server side :evil:
Does anybody have a working example to store somewhat "exotic" characters (chinese, kyrilic, whatever) as property in Alfresco?