Reading UTF-8 Encoding xml file sqlserver

Question

Hi ,
I am recieving a xml file from a third party vendor. it is encoded in UTF-8. while i am reading it i am getting the below error.
Msg 9420, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
XML parsing: line 30117390, character 33, illegal xml character
the characters causing the problem are like è,Ö,è.
 My database default collation is ‘SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS’
I am using the below query to read the xmlfile.
declare @xml xml
SELECT
@xml= CAST(x AS XML)
FROM
OPENROWSET(BULK 'D:\sample.xml',SINGLE_BLOB) AS T(x)
select
X.product.value('(ID/text())[1]', 'varchar(50)') as ID ,
X.product.value('(Name/text())[1]', 'varchar(50)') as Name
from
@xml.nodes('Students/Student') AS X(product)
how can i read the file successfully. any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This issue normally happens when the XML file is not in the correct format. To save in the correct format open the xml file and click save as. Choose the encoding option as "UTF-8".
Regards, RSingh