On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 4:26 PM, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> I am not unix or xml savvy. So any guidance will be appreciated. > > I was supplied with an xml file to use to install a product. When it runs > it fails with the following error message. This is done on the mainframe > in the OMVS function. > > SEVERE: java.text.ParseException: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: An > invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x4c) was found in the prolog of the > document. > > the first few lines of the XML are: > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <Metadata> > <Group Id="$group:1" Name="SAS Plan File for Company Name" Desc=""> > <Properties> > <Property Id="$grpprop:1" Name="AsOfDate" DefaultValue="2017-02-22" > /> > <Property Id="$grpprop:2" Name="ConfigDirectory" > DefaultValue="Config" /> > > it is very long xml, over 3600 lines of code. > > I am thinking it may have something to do with the code page for my PC or > maybe the CUNI for LE. Not sure. > > Also, when I have the xml on my PC it looks fine, when I transferred it up > to the mainframe it looked wrapped. Should it be more line items or > wrapped for it to work? Just curious. It was suggested to go into wordpad > and then save it. Then the wrap on the mainframe would be more line items > (code). Does that create any issues? > > > > So any thoughts? > > Thanks > > Lizette > > Hum, 0x4c in UTF-8 is an "L". In EBCDIC CP-037 (et al.) it is a "<". If you look at the first line: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> the phrase: encoding="UTF-8" says that the rest of the data is in UTF-8. But it's actually in EBCDIC. So the XML parser "sees" the "<" (in EBCDIC, this is 0x4c, as in error) as a UTF-8 value of "L", which is not what it wants at this point. I'm not totally sure, but I think you need the first line to look like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM037" ?> or maybe even just, leaving off the encoding entirely, <?xml version="1.0" ?> a good source of information on XML on z/OS: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247810.pdf section 1.4 on "Encoding". -- Veni, Vidi, VISA: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
