Exception

[Niranjan Prasad]

Following is the Exception i am getting while parsing an XML file,Could anyone tell me what would be the reason.
I am using SAXParser for parsing

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the CDATA section.

at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanCDATASection(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(Unknown Source)

at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)

at SaxParserUtil.parseDocument(SaxParserUtil.java:129)

at AdvSrchSAXPrser.main(AdvSrchSAXPrser.java:30)

[Paul Clapham]

What's the reason that "An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) was found in the CDATA section"? Because there was an invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x0) in a CDATA section in your input document, and the parser found it there. That seems fairly straightforward to me. What is it that you don't understand about that?

[William Brogden]

The SAXParseException (org.xml.sax package) contains methods getColumnNumber() and getLineNumber() which you can use to find out where in your document a bad character occurs. The location should give you a clue as to what is writing that character.

Another useful tool is a programmer's editor which can show the hex value of each character - I use UltraEdit32.

How was the file created?

Bill