Re: [boost] An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x8) problem because of property_tree::xml_parser::write_xml

Subject: Re: [boost] An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x8) problem because of property_tree::xml_parser::write_xml
From: Mathias Gaunard (mathias.gaunard_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-02 11:40:42

On 02/03/2015 05:59, Rohan Shetty wrote:
> Hi,
> I have used the following C++ code to generate the xml
> boost::property_tree::ptree ptResponse;
> // Populate the tree from the Microsoft Outlook contactsstd::stringstream buf;
>   const std::string enc("utf-8"); boost::property_tree::xml_writer_settings<char> settings(' ', 0, enc); boost::property_tree::xml_parser::write_xml(buf, ptResponse, settings);
> This works fine.
> But in one of the customer's machine, when reading the this(xml content) in a JAVA program. I get the following error
> An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x8) was found in the element content of the document.
>
> Any help in solving this is appreciated.

I don't understand, the error message is quite explicit: your data isn't 
utf-8 even though you said it was. What were you expecting to happen?

Also this would probably be more suited to the boost-users mailing list.