[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: Error using .NET to transform XML to HTML in webspeed with End of file when none ascii char

[christian.bryan@capita.co.uk]

HI All We have a strange issue with using the following code in webspeed to transform XML documents to HTML using XSLT. If non-ascii characters in the XML we get the following error in the webspeed log: >>>>>>>> System.Xml.XmlException: Unexpected end of file while parsing Name has occurred. Line 2, position 39946. <<<<<<<<< We cannot recreate this in the a gui client though. CODE: DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER i-xml-doc AS HANDLE NO-UNDO. DEFINE INPUT PARAMETER i-xsl-name AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO. DEF VAR lv-myStringReader AS System.IO.StringReader NO-UNDO. DEF VAR lv-myStringWriter AS System.IO.StringWriter NO-UNDO. DEF VAR lv-myXpathDoc AS System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument NO-UNDO. DEF VAR lv-myXslTrans AS System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform NO-UNDO. DEF VAR lv-MyXMLWriter AS System.Xml.XmlWriter NO-UNDO. DEF VAR lv-XMLString AS LONGCHAR NO-UNDO. DEF VAR lv-Output AS LONGCHAR NO-UNDO. i-xml-doc:SAVE("LONGCHAR", lv-XMLString). lv-myStringReader = NEW System.IO.StringReader(lv-xmlString). lv-myXPathDoc = NEW System.Xml.XPath.XPathDocument(lv-myStringReader). lv-myXslTrans = NEW System.Xml.Xsl.XslCompiledTransform(). /* load the Xsl */ lv-myXslTrans:Load(SEARCH(i-xsl-name)). /* create the output stream */ lv-myStringWriter = NEW System.IO.StringWriter(). lv-MyXMLWriter = System.Xml.XmlWriter:CREATE(lv-myStringWriter, lv-myXslTrans:OutputSettings). /* Do the actual transform of Xml */ lv-myXslTrans:Transform(lv-myXPathDoc, lv-myXMLWriter). lv-Output = lv-myStringWriter:ToString(). /* Copy longchar to webstream */ {&OUT-LONG} lv-Output. DELETE OBJECT lv-myStringReader NO-ERROR. DELETE OBJECT lv-myXPathDoc NO-ERROR. DELETE OBJECT lv-myXslTrans NO-ERROR. DELETE OBJECT lv-myStringWriter NO-ERROR. DELETE OBJECT lv-MyXMLWriter NO-ERROR. XML and XSL document:

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