That's xerces complaining, not iText. The XML in your PDF has an error.
Paulo
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Howard Shank
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 2:35 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: [iText-questions] Field name throws error.
>
> Why would the code below using the following field name cause
> this error?
>
> Exception in thread "main" org.w3c.dom.DOMException:
> INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: An invalid or illegal XML character is
> specified.
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.checkQ
> Name(Unknown Source)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementNSImpl.setName(U
> nknown Source)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.ElementNSImpl.<init>(Un
> known Source)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.create
> ElementNS(Unknown Source)
> at
> com.lowagie.text.pdf.XfaForm$Xml2SomDatasets.insertNode(Unknow
> n Source)
> at com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields.setField(Unknown Source)
> at com.lowagie.text.pdf.AcroFields.setField(Unknown Source)
> at PdfFormFiller.main(PdfFormFiller.java:48)
>
> key = "form1[0].#subform[2].#field[95]"
>
> //----------------CODE START -------------------------//
> public static void main(String[] args) {
> PdfReader reader = null;
> PdfStamper stamp = null;
> try {
> reader = new PdfReader("Template.pdf");
> stamp = new PdfStamper(reader, new
> FileOutputStream("TemplateFilled.pdf"));
> AcroFields form = stamp.getAcroFields();
> HashMap fields = form.getFields();
> String key;
>
> for (Iterator i = fields.keySet().iterator();
> i.hasNext(); ) {
> key = (String) i.next();
> switch(form.getFieldType(key)) {
> case AcroFields.FIELD_TYPE_TEXT:
> System.out.println("Processing " + key + ": ");
> form.setField(key, "Test");
> //<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<ERRORS HERE!
> break;
> default:
> System.out.println("Skipping " + key);
> break;
> }
>
> }
> } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> } catch (IOException e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> } catch (DocumentException e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> try {
> stamp.close();
> } catch (DocumentException e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> } catch (IOException e) {
> // TODO Auto-generated catch block
> e.printStackTrace();
> }
> reader.close();
> }
> //------------END CODE------------------//
>
>
> Thanks
> Howard
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