An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0)

[bob connolly]

Hello!

I'm trying to figure out how to indentify this (0x0 Unicode) character when i encounter it please!

I'm reading a pipe delimited file, parsing it into an array and creating XML and it looks like there is this hidden character at the end of one of the records!

fatalError:
setValidity:
Error number : 1
Error starts on line number : 424
Error starts on column position: 320
Error text is : org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the element conte
nt of the document.
HlpValPipBufXml2/Error9/creating SAX parser: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the e
lement content of the document.

Here is where i'm assigning the data to a token and if i could check the array element characters with something like:

j=sa[i].indexOf("0x0");
if (j>0) sa[i].charAt(j)=' ';

                      if (NUM_COLS==fcnt)
                      {
 
                      for (int i = 0; i < NUM_COLS; i++)
                      {
                          if (i>(sa.length-1)) { sToken = new String(" ");} else { sToken = sa[i]; }
 
                          if (sToken.indexOf('<')>-1 || sToken.indexOf('>')>-1 || sToken.indexOf('"')>-1 || sToken.indexOf('&')>-1 )
                          {
                              String sToken2 = new String();
                              sToken2        = normalize(sToken);
                              sToken         = sToken2;
                          }
 
outf.write("    <"+_columnNames[i]+">"+sToken+"</"+_columnNames[i]">"+"\n");
                      }

Thanks very much!

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Unicode: 0x0 is 'null'
What if you test for null in your input and ignore it when found.

[bob connolly]

Oh that's the NULL symbol!

Thanks Marylin!