XML Parsing issuse

[Sireesh Ganagam]

Hello All,

How you doing. I have xml file generated i want to read rc , rm values in that but i am getting exceptions. How can i achieve this. Appreciate your help

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<testResults version="1.2">
<sample t="60" it="0" lt="0" ts="1406081621230" s="false" lb="MH_POST" rc="500" rm="org.apache.jmeter.protocol.tcp.sampler.ReadException: " tn="MH_POST_Sampler 5-1" dt="text" de="windows-1252" by="0" sc="1" ec="1" ng="1" na="2" hn="814">
  <requestHeader class="java.lang.String"></requestHeader>
  <responseData class="java.lang.String"></responseData>
  <responseFile class="java.lang.String"></responseFile>
  <samplerData class="java.lang.String">&x2;&x2;^^^T06041^DIVERTED^^^^^1^SH08^SH08^^&x3;&x3;</samplerData>
</sample>

</testResults>

Exceptions :



[Fatal Error] :7:46: Character reference "&x2" is an invalid XML character.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "" is an invalid XML character.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:246)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse(DocumentBuilderImpl.java:284)
at javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder.parse(DocumentBuilder.java:124)
at VBSexe.convertXMLFileToString(VBSexe.java:146)
at VBSexe.main(VBSexe.java:61)

[William Brogden]

Obviously the first step will be to get a readable XML document by locating and fixing all those illegal characters.

How was this document generated? If it got anywhere near Microsoft word it may be contaminated with those accursed "smart punctuation" characters.

If you catch the SAXParseException try extracting the line and column number to help locate the bad character in the text.

A programmer's editor that can show and patch HEX values will be a big help too.

Bill

[Mark E Hansen]

It's just a guess, but it looks like there is strange data in the <samplerData> element

[david fields]

If youre still struggling there is afree online xml validator http://www.liquid-technologies.com/FreeXmlTools/FreeXmlValidator.aspx that will check your xml for you, you wont need to download anything.