Remove Invalid XML Characters

Operation Name

Remove invalid characters for XML from input data.

XML type.

For more details on input/output schema, refer to “Schema”.

For details on use of variables, refer to “Variables”.

Item name	Required/Optional	Use of variables	Description	Remarks
Name	Required	Not available	Enter the name to show on the script canvas.
Input data	Required	Not available	Select a component on the script canvas.

Item name	Required/Optional	Use of variables	Description	Remarks
Comment	Optional	Not available	You can write a short description of this adapter. The description will be reflected in the specifications.

Same as the schema of input component.

When the setting of input source component is to perform Mass Data Processing, then it will be performed automatically.

PSP is not supported.

Component variable name	Description	Remarks
message_category	When an error occurs, the corresponding message code's category is stored.	Default value is null.
message_code	When an error occurs, the corresponding message code is stored.	Default value is null.
message_level	When an error occurs, the corresponding message code's severity is stored.	Default value is null.
error_type	When an error occurs, the error type is stored.	Default value is null. The error type will be in the following format. Example: “java.io.FileNotFoundException” The contents that will be stored may vary depending on DataSpider Servista versions.
error_message	When an error occurs, the error message is stored.	Default value is null. The contents that will be stored may vary depending on DataSpider Servista versions.
error_trace	When an error occurs, the error's trace information is stored.	Default value is null. The contents that will be stored may vary depending on DataSpider Servista versions and client applications.

When input data is table model type, all the data are handled as string.
All of the input data will be converted into string removing invalid characters, and the result will be output as string.

Exception name	Cause	Solution
InputDataNotFoundException	[Input data] is not specified.	Specify [Input data] or draw data flow.

When input data is XML type, although operation is executed, the result data will be the same as the input data without any conversion.

When invalid characters are detected as XML element contents, log is output in the server console and server.log as follows.
[ds.common.xmlfw|WARN| Invalid character is found in character data. The 2nd character (Unicode: 0X0) is removed.]