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RE: SAXON Fatal Error UTF-8 sequence (character code: 0x63)
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:12:01 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] SAXON Fatal Error UTF-8 sequence (character code: 0x63)
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> As a result, I knew it must be a character problem but I didn't know
> where to look in the document because the column and line numbers
> were so wacky. Is there a way to decipher this error location when it
> happens so I won't have to do the same thing again?
>
> > > Line: -1
> > > Column: 33064
>
> I read somewhere that this is a binary location. Does that mean I
> could translate it (from however saxon is giving the location) and
> find out where it is in my document? (Hey, I am really trying to
> figure out how saxon comes up with this location.)
Basically, AElfred has to translate bytes into characters before it can work
out where the line endings are. If a failure occurs while doing that
translation, then it can't give you the line and column number, so instead
it just gives you the byte offset in the file.
Mike Kay
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