EDI Serialization error

Question

I'm getting an error when my msg hits the outgoing EDI assembler that really has me scratching my head. I drop a flat file that is mapped to an 835. The map seems to run well, but the msg gets suspended with the following error:
"During serialization root node is not placed at start element"
I though maybe the msg that was hitting the EDI outgoing pipeline was not the msg I intended, and maybe the flatfile msg was getting through, so I looked up the suspended msg and sure enough it is the XML. So, I copied the XML and created a file. I then
changed my incoming pipeline to accept XML, dropped the file and the EDI 835 was created successfully. 
I've never seen this error before. Have any of you? Googling it just suggests that the msg may not correctly start with a proper "ST" segment, but again, it ran fine when I dropped the XML msg.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi ,
You can use  XmlTransmit pipeline. Doing this gives you access to a pipeline
PreserveBOM instance property that will strip the BOM from the message for you if you change it from its default setting of “True” to “False”:
Or you can do something like this
1)create a variable of type XMLdocument  =xmldoc;
2)Store the message in xmldoc : xmldoc = message1;
Pass the xmlodc to class library funtion
if (xml.StartsWith(ByteOrderMarkUtf8))
    xml = xml.Remove(0,
ByteOrderMarkUtf8.Length);
Thanks
Abhishek