Hi masters!
I'm trying to read an XML from an external URL, the code that i use is like this:
filename Archive url 'https://myURL?$format=xml'
User="USER" pass="PASS";
filename SXLEMAP 'C:\mapa.map';
libname Archive xml92 xmlmap=SXLEMAP access=readonly;
Well this code works properly and I have tables in the library but when I try to filter the table with a query i get the error:
ERROR: Some code points did not transcode.
occurred at or near line 1, column 954035
ERROR: XML parsing error. Please verify that the XML content is well-formed.
I create the map file with SAS XML mapper and the automatic option.
Kind regards
Might be an encoding mismatch. If you can use UTF-8 encoding in your SAS session, you might have better luck. Or take a look at the XML file (the column where the error was flagged) and see if it's an aberration -- something like a curly quote or some other character that really shouldn't be there. I'd use Notepad++ for something like that.
Instead of running queries directly on the XML libname, I'd use DATA step to create a copy as a SAS data set. Then run your filter on that.
data myxml;
set Archive.myxml;
run;
Might be an encoding mismatch. If you can use UTF-8 encoding in your SAS session, you might have better luck. Or take a look at the XML file (the column where the error was flagged) and see if it's an aberration -- something like a curly quote or some other character that really shouldn't be there. I'd use Notepad++ for something like that.
@ChrisHemedinger How can i use the UTF-8 in my SAS session?
I think i dont have 954035 colunms :S
Kind regards
I suspect that your XML file is being read as a huge 1-line mass, and the column number is really a character position. That's why I suggested Notepad++ -- it can handle large files and you can navigate to the 954,035th character position, see what's there.
The change for use the encoding UTF-8 in the file sasv9.cfg affects to all sessions, there is any way to force only one project to UTF-8 encoding or for only one dataset?
Kind Regards
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