As far as I know the character '#' is not special in XML. The error
happens when xerces is parsing XML that already exists in the PDF.
Please post the PDF if you want to continue this thread.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Howard Shank
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 3:25 PM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Field name throws error.
>
> Paulo,
>
> I know and agree that Xerces is throwing the actual error,
> but shouldn't iText handle the field name properly?
>
> If I get the field name from the AcroFields.getFields()
> collection and the field name contains a # sign, one would
> not expect that to use the AcroFields.setField() method that
> the # sign would have to be replaced with # before using
> the field name. After all, iText did return the name
> containing the #'s.
>
> Howard
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:38:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Field name throws error.
>
> That's xerces complaining, not iText. The XML in your PDF has
> an error.
>
> Paulo
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [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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