Question Marks and Missing pieces in XML documents

Hi there,
I am using FM 10.  I have set up a conversion table to apply DITA structure to documents, with the intent of saving them as XML docs.  Unfortunately, after I do this, the XML docs are coming out a little strange...with ? added, with text and tables missing, etc.
Here is what the structure looks like before I save as XML:
Then, I save as XML, reopen in FM and get the following:
I can look at the XML directly and see that the culprit is a little box character that must not be interpreted correctly when FM reopens the XML doc:
All I don't understand is why that character is appearing in the XML to begin with.  I don't have anything - even a space - in the structured doc in that location. Any ideas as to why this is occuring?  This isn't a huge deal in the example XML file, but other XML files I've saved via this process are littered with ? or sometimes altogether missing entire elements (like the whole Title element has disappeared).
Hannah

Hannah,
Such characters can be the result of pasting text from application with CR+LF line-ends. FrameMaker internally uses only the LF character and so spurious CR can be left over.
To test if this is the case, you can
• search in your original documents for \x0d  (backslash, x, zero, d: the hex code for Carriage Return) and if found replace them with nothing.
• or, do a MIF wash before saving as XML: Save the document as MIF, then open this MIF document and proceed as you originally intended.
But maybe it is something different,
- Michael

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