Issue with xpathsnippet no support for German „Umlaute” like äöäÖÄÖ H

andreasw over 11 years ago

Issue with xpathsnippet no support for German „Umlaute” like äöäÖÄÖ

Hi.
If a got a XML like this:

?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?>
<Values>
<Value>
<Address>Bäckstreet 0</Address>
</Value>
<Value>
<Address>Backstreet 1</Address>
</Value>
</Values>

And use
xpathsnippet(MY_XML_LIKE_ABOVE "/Values/Value/Address/text()")

Evaluating with xpathsnipped fails with :
“The rule contains an expression that cannot be tested”

If I remove the “ä” everything goes well.
Any ideas ?
Many thans in advance
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0 andreasw over 10 years ago

Hi sureshrk.
The pitfall here may be that the data cannot be encoded due to special country based characters.
So the XML encoding has to be set correctly. In this case we have German Umlaute like ÖÄÜ that can be encoded using “ISO-8859-1” .
This is the reason why we have to replace the UTF-8 encoding at the beginning of the XML string.
Try to replace
?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?>
with
?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""ISO-8859-8""?>
Also the double "" may be a problem,
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0 andreasw over 10 years ago

Hi sureshrk.
The pitfall here may be that the data cannot be encoded due to special country based characters.
So the XML encoding has to be set correctly. In this case we have German Umlaute like ÖÄÜ that can be encoded using “ISO-8859-1” .
This is the reason why we have to replace the UTF-8 encoding at the beginning of the XML string.
Try to replace
?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?>
with
?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""ISO-8859-8""?>
Also the double "" may be a problem,
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