tDTDValidator error with valid UTF-8 files and special characters

[joboro1]

Hi there,

we are using Talend Studio 6.4.1 and trying to process XML files which we want to validate against a DTD file beforehand. But we are facing problems with XML files containing special characters like the euro sign (€) or sz (ß). The tDTDValidator component runs into an error:

[FATAL]: abc.ordersvalidate_0_1.OrdersValidate - tDTDValidator_1 Invalid byte 2 of 2-byte UTF-8 sequence.

The error pattern looks like described in this thread ([resolved] Error with tDTDValidator) at talendforge.

It seems that the tDTDValidator uses the encoding "ISO-8859-1" for the XML file regardless of the used encoding inside the XML file.

                String encoding = null;
                if (doctDTDValidator_1.getXmlEncoding() == null) {
                    encoding = "ISO-8859-1";
                } else {
                    encoding = doctDTDValidator_1.getXmlEncoding();
                }

The workaround suggested in the named thread is to use the tXSDValidator which we cannot use.

Is this a know bug of the tDTDValidator component and has been fixed in a later version or what kind of workarounds are around there?

KR

joboro

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi,

     The present version of tDTDValidator do not have the option to use UTF-8 and its configured for ISO-8859-1 character set.

      If you are an enterprise customer, could you please create a support case to see the possibility to get a quick patch to make it configurable.

      If you are using an open source version, could you please create a feature request using below link?

https://jira.talendforge.org

Warm Regards,
Nikhil Thampi

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[joboro1]

I opened a support case.
KR