Illegal XML character exception in Importing data imprt manager

Did any one of you face Illegal XML character error while importing extracted data from ECC
I googled and found out XML parser does not like to find '<' '&' in the data , is that true? if so what was the work around ?? BTW we are getting DEBMDM customer data and import manager is bombing with these errors with every other file.
I know import server is a route , but any other solution?
-Sudhir

Hi Sudhir,
We had faced a similar situation when using extracted Material Master data from ECC.
We had some special characters in some of the fields like Material description such as (<,^,*,&,#@)etc.But these data were readily imported in MDM without much troubble.However there were some other fields which had error in the Date Formats and were not excepted by MDM
While automatically importing this data in MDM using the Import server the records failed throwing exceptions.
We then analysed the Source file carefully in Excel format by using Fillters and identified these Wrong date charactes which were giving troubble.
We corrected the dates and had no futher issues for the special character text we imported them with Data type Text Normalized and they passed corrrectly even with Data type as TEXT.
So I suggest that you analyses your data correctly in excel if required for better clearance and check for any futher in consisitencies in the dtaa for every field value.
Hope It Helped,
Thanks & Regards
Simona Pinto

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