Retrieving Unicode characters with MS Query

Hi.
I am using MS Query to retrieve data into Excel from an Oracle database. The data contains several different characters (such as degree and diameter symbols) which are stored as Unicode, but the query returns the same character for all of them.
In the MS Query window the special characters appear as upside down question marks; in Excel they show as white question marks in a black diamond. The ASCII code of the character displayed in Excel is '63', and the UNICODE() value is 65533. This
isn't the character that is stored in the Oracle database.
Is there a way to correctly retrieve these characters?
The ODBC driver is Oracle in OraClient11g_home1, version 11.02.00.01. I've tried it with the 'Force SQL_WCHAR Support' setting on, but it didn't make a difference. So, I've pretty much exhausted my knowledge now...
Thanks in advance, Steve

Hi
Steve,
As far as I know the function of MS Query didn’t update anymore after the version of excel 2003. I suppose the issue might be caused by the different rules between Unicode
and ASCII code, so you get different result in excel from Oracle database. I suggest you can try to use PowerQuery and PowerPivot. Their function are stronger than MS Query, and you can get latest function. Probably they can help you to solve your issue.
Hope it’s helpful.
Regards,

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e.getX(), e.getY());

Yes, the code is large, isn't it. It is a good idea, when you have a problem you can't solve, to remove unnecessary code. When the problem disappears, then you know the code you just removed was probably the source of the problem.
But in your case, I think that none of the 1000 lines of code you posted are the problem. You appear to be using Lucida Sans, which is a positive sign; it can render many of the characters you have hard-coded in your program. But apparently the problem is with characters that are coming from somewhere else? And you are using a PrintWriter to send them there and a BufferedReader to get them back? These convert your data from characters to bytes and back again using the default encoding for your system. Chances are that this encoding is some "extended ASCII" encoding that doesn't know how to map anything above \u00ff. You need to get an InputStreamReader and an OutputStreamWriter into your transmission. (Wrap your socket.getInputStream() in an InputStreamReader and wrap that in a BufferedReader, etc.) These objects can take an encoding name as their second parameter; try "UTF-8" or "UTF8" for the encoding. Their API documentation has a link to a page about encodings; follow that if you need more info.

Unicode characters with accents won't display in Java Swing applications

I'm using FreeMind (a Java Swing application) and I need to enter classical Greek characters with accent marks. When I type an accented Greek character, FreeMind displays the unaccented character. However, I can type the accented character in MS Word, then copy and paste into FreeMind, the accented character appears.
One of the FreeMind developers indicated this was a Java Swing issue, not FreeMind, and suggested I test with another Swing application. So, I installed jEdit and got exactly the same results. I can paste an accented character into jEdit, but I cannot type it in directly.
I'm using Windows Vista with Java 6 Update 22 (build 1.6.0_22-b04). I also tested on a XP Pro box with Java 1.6.0_18-b07 and got the same result.
One other note: A couple days ago, I was able to type accented Greek characters into FreeMind. But it only worked for a couple days and then the behavior reverted to unaccented characters. It is possible, but I don't recall specifically, that I updated Java during the time and that may indicate a bug in one version of Java but not another.
Any assistance or guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Darin

Walter,
The link you provided does not appear to describe the Greek Polytonic keyboard. (The page also describes using the "Option" key as the dead key. There is no "Option" key on my keyboard. I'm using a Sony VGN-NS140E purchased in Chicago, i.e. standard physical US keyboard.)
Please see http://darindavis.net/languages/keyboard_Greek.pdf for a detailed description of how to use the Greek (Polytonic) keyboard in Windows to produce a complete set of accented classical Greek characters. This method works in MS Word and Notepad. I enabled the Greek (Polytonic) keyboard with:
Windows (Vista) Start > Control Panel > Regional and Language Options > Change Keyboards > General > Add > Greek (Greece) > Greek Polytonic
A test that will demonstrate whether you can replicate the error is to do the following in both MS Word (or Notepad) and jEdit (or FreeMind):
1. Enable the Greek Polytonic keyboard
2. Type "\" then "e" which should produce an epsilon with smooth breathing and grave accent (ἒ)
When I do this in MS Word or Notepad, I see the epsilon with smooth breathing and grave accent. When I do this in jEdit and FreeMind, I only see an epsilon.
I recorded a screencast to illustrate the problem: http://www.screencast.com/t/TRKkKQrCgbN
Actually, this problem is transient. Sometimes FreeMind or jEdit will display accented characters, other times it won't. Ironically, the first time I recorded the above referenced screencast, a few characters in jEdit did appear with accents. A couple minutes later, I re-recorded the screencast and as you can see jEdit did not display the accents. Between the two recordings I literally did nothing other than stop the Jing recording and start a new one. There is another variable at play here and I can't determine what it is. The most likely source seems to be Java since MS Word and Notepad consistently display accent characters.
Thanks,
Darin

Object types return hex characters with xsql:query

How do I use xsql servlet to return an object which contains street address etc. as a character string and not a hexadecimal string. If I use the following ddl and implement the following xsql, I get the following results.
CREATE TYPE address_objtyp AS object
(street VARCHAR(30),city VARCHAR(30),state VARCHAR(2));
CREATE SEQUENCE employees_seq START WITH 105 INCREMENT BY 1;
CREATE TABLE employees(
id NUMBER(4) CONSTRAINT emp_pkId PRIMARY KEY,
first_name VARCHAR(30),
last_name VARCHAR(30),
address address_objtyp);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES (
103, 'Fred', 'Couples',
address_objtyp('9201 Park St', 'Alexandria', 'VA'));
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsql:query null-indicator="yes" connection="demo"
allow-client-style="yes" xmlns:xsql="urn:oracle-xsql">
select * from employees
</xsql:query>
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <ROWSET xsql-timing="20">
- <ROW num="1">
<ID>103</ID>
<FIRST_NAME>Fred</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>Couples</LAST_NAME>
- <ADDRESS>
<STREET>0x39323031205061726B205374</STREET>
<CITY>0x416C6578616E64726961</CITY>
<STATE>0x5641</STATE>
</ADDRESS>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
I'm using the most recent jdbc thin driver (ojdbc14.jar) that is for jdk 1.4. I'm using a 9.0.1 db, and I'm using xdk for java 9.2.0.3. So I thought that the thin driver is not capable, so I tried the oci driver, and find another set of problems.
I get the following error:
Oracle XDK Java 9.2.0.3.0 Production
XSQL-017: Unexpected Error Occurred
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no ocijdbc8 in java.library.path
Now why does XDK insist to look for ocijdbc8 if I only have ocijdbc9.dll installed on my client? The config file only allows oci8 in the dburl specification, which is probably why XDK insists to look for ocijdbc8, but I CANNOT specify oci9, which would make sense to me, although it's most likely not a valid specification.
<connection name="9ic">
<username>scott</username>
<password>tiger</password>
<dburl>jdbc:oracle:oci8:@</dburl>
<driver>oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</driver>
<autocommit>true</autocommit>
</connection>
And lastly documentation that comes with ojdbc14.jar indicates to now use a different specification for the jdbc thin driver. Instead of the usual
<dburl>jdbc:oracle:thin:@host:port:sid</dburl>
it recommends
<dburl>jdbc:oracle:thin:@//host:port/service</dburl>
however this does not work with XDK 9.2.0.3. Any ideas why not?
By the way if I use SQL*Plus and select * from employees, I get the desired result in SQL*Plus, which suggests to me that I DO need the oci driver for XSQL Servlet. So how do I get XSQL Servlet 9.2.0.3 to use the oci 9 driver. I know how to set wrapper.path in the servlet config file to find ocijdbc9.dll, but XSQL Servlet still wants to find ocijdbc8.
I sense that there is a bug hidden somewhere in the XDK kit.
Steve.

How do I use xsql servlet to return an object which contains street address etc. as a character string and not a hexadecimal string. If I use the following ddl and implement the following xsql, I get the following results.
CREATE TYPE address_objtyp AS object
(street VARCHAR(30),city VARCHAR(30),state VARCHAR(2));
CREATE SEQUENCE employees_seq START WITH 105 INCREMENT BY 1;
CREATE TABLE employees(
id NUMBER(4) CONSTRAINT emp_pkId PRIMARY KEY,
first_name VARCHAR(30),
last_name VARCHAR(30),
address address_objtyp);
INSERT INTO employees VALUES (
103, 'Fred', 'Couples',
address_objtyp('9201 Park St', 'Alexandria', 'VA'));
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsql:query null-indicator="yes" connection="demo"
allow-client-style="yes" xmlns:xsql="urn:oracle-xsql">
select * from employees
</xsql:query>
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
- <ROWSET xsql-timing="20">
- <ROW num="1">
<ID>103</ID>
<FIRST_NAME>Fred</FIRST_NAME>
<LAST_NAME>Couples</LAST_NAME>
- <ADDRESS>
<STREET>0x39323031205061726B205374</STREET>
<CITY>0x416C6578616E64726961</CITY>
<STATE>0x5641</STATE>
</ADDRESS>
</ROW>
</ROWSET>
I'm using the most recent jdbc thin driver (ojdbc14.jar) that is for jdk 1.4. I'm using a 9.0.1 db, and I'm using xdk for java 9.2.0.3. So I thought that the thin driver is not capable, so I tried the oci driver, and find another set of problems.
I get the following error:
Oracle XDK Java 9.2.0.3.0 Production
XSQL-017: Unexpected Error Occurred
java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no ocijdbc8 in java.library.path
Now why does XDK insist to look for ocijdbc8 if I only have ocijdbc9.dll installed on my client? The config file only allows oci8 in the dburl specification, which is probably why XDK insists to look for ocijdbc8, but I CANNOT specify oci9, which would make sense to me, although it's most likely not a valid specification.
<connection name="9ic">
<username>scott</username>
<password>tiger</password>
<dburl>jdbc:oracle:oci8:@</dburl>
<driver>oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver</driver>
<autocommit>true</autocommit>
</connection>
And lastly documentation that comes with ojdbc14.jar indicates to now use a different specification for the jdbc thin driver. Instead of the usual
<dburl>jdbc:oracle:thin:@host:port:sid</dburl>
it recommends
<dburl>jdbc:oracle:thin:@//host:port/service</dburl>
however this does not work with XDK 9.2.0.3. Any ideas why not?
By the way if I use SQL*Plus and select * from employees, I get the desired result in SQL*Plus, which suggests to me that I DO need the oci driver for XSQL Servlet. So how do I get XSQL Servlet 9.2.0.3 to use the oci 9 driver. I know how to set wrapper.path in the servlet config file to find ocijdbc9.dll, but XSQL Servlet still wants to find ocijdbc8.
I sense that there is a bug hidden somewhere in the XDK kit.
Steve.

SSMS 2012:XQuery-doing "Retriving Job Candidates with the query Method" in AdventuresWorks 2012. Unclosed quotation mark after string '//*:Name.First?

Hi all,
From Page 354 of the the Book "Pro T-SQL 2008 Programmer's Guide" written by Michael Coles (published by apress), I copied the following code (Listing 12-9 Retrieving Job Candidates with the query Method):
--Coles12_9.sql // saved in C:/Documemnts/SQL Server Management Studio
-- Coles Listing 12-9 Retrieving Job Candidates with the query Method
-- Doing XQuery and the xml Data Type in AdvantureWorks
-- 17 March 2015 1105 AM
USE AdventureWorks;
GO
SELECT Resume.query
N'//*:Name.First,
//*:Name.Middle,
//*:Name.Last,
//*:Edu.Level
FROM HumanResources.JobCandidate;
I executed this set of Listing 12-9 code in my SQL Server 2012 Management Studio and I got the following error messages:
Msg 105, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Unclosed quotation mark after the character string '//*:Name.First,
//*:Name.Middle,
//*:Name.Last,
//*:Edu.Level
FROM HumanResources.JobCandidate;
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 4
Incorrect syntax near '//*:Name.First,
//*:Name.Middle,
//*:Name.Last,
//*:Edu.Level
FROM HumanResources.JobCandidate;
I am not able to figure out why I got the error messages. Please kindly help and advise me how to correct this set of sql codes.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Chang

Hi Scott,
I don't have that book at hand, but your problem is the "Unclosed quotationmark after the character string",as the error message shows. You have to enclose the 'XQUERY' string quotation in the
query().
SELECT jobcandidateid, Resume.query
N'//*:resume,
//*:Name.Middle,
//*:Name.Last,
//*:Edu.Level' --enclose the quotation here
FROM HumanResources.JobCandidate;
For XQUERY learning, here is a good
link.
If you have any question, feel free to let me know.
Eric Zhang
TechNet Community Support

Direct Execution of query having Unicode Characters

Direct Execution of query having Unicode Characters
Hi All,
In my application I am firing a Select Query having Unicode characters in Where Clause under condition like '%%'
to Oracle 10g DB from a Interface written in VC6.0...
Application funcationality is working fine for ANSI characters and getting the result of Select properly.
But in case of Unicode Characters in VC it says 'No Data Found'.
I know where the exact problem is in my code. But not getting the exact solution for resolving my issue...
Here with I am adding my code snippet with the comments of what i understand and what i want to understand...
DBPROCESS Structure used in the functions,_
typedef struct
HENV hEnv;
HDBC hDbc;
HSTMT hStmt;
char CmdBuff[[8192]];
char RpcParamName[[255]];
SQLINTEGER SpRetVal;
SQLINTEGER ColIndPtr[[255]];
SQLINTEGER ParamIndPtr[[255]];
SQLPOINTER pOutputParam;
SQLUSMALLINT CurrentParamNo;
SQLUSMALLINT OutputParamNo;
SQLUSMALLINT InputParamCtr;
SQLINTEGER BatchStmtNo;
SQLINTEGER CmdBuffLen;
short CurrentStmtType;
SQLRETURN LastStmtRetcode;
SQLCHAR SqlState[[10]];
int ShowDebug;
SQLCHAR* ParameterValuePtr;
int ColumnSize;
DBTYPE DatabaseType;
DRVTYPE OdbcDriverType;
BLOCKBIND *ptrBlockBind;
} DBPROCESS;
BOOL CDynamicPickList::GetResultSet(DBPROCESS *pDBProc, bstrt& pQuery, short pNumOdbcBindParams, COdbcBindParameter pOdbcBindParams[], CQueryResultSet& pQueryResultSet)
     int               lRetVal,
                    lNumRows;
     bstrt               lResultSet;
     wchar_t               lColName[[256]];
     SQLUINTEGER          lColSize;
     SQLSMALLINT          lColNameLen,
                    lColDataType,
                    lColNullable,
                    lColDecDigits,
                    lNumResultCols;
     wchar_t               lResultRow[[32]][[256]];
OdbcCmdW(pDBProc, (wchar_t *)pQuery); *//Query is perfectly fine till this point all the Unicode Characters are preserved...*
     if ( OdbcSqlExec(pDBProc) != SUCCEED )
          LogAppError(L"Error In Executing Query %s", (wchar_t *)pQuery);
          return FALSE;
Function OdbcCmdW_
//From this point have no idea what is exactly happening to the Unicode Characters...
//Actually i have try printing the query that gets stored in CmdBuff... it show junk for Unicode Characters...
//CmdBuff is the Char type Variable and hence must be showing junk for Unicode data
//I have also try printing the HexaDecimal of the query... I m not getting the proper output... But till i Understand, I think the HexaDecimal Value is perfect & preserved
//After the execution of this function the call goes to OdbcSqlExec where actual execution of qurey takes place on DB
SQLRETURN OdbcCmdW( DBPROCESS p_ptr_dbproc, WCHAR      p_sql_command )
     char *p_sql_commandMBCS;
     int l_ret_val;
     int l_size = wcslen(p_sql_command);
     int l_org_length,
l_newcmd_length;
p_sql_commandMBCS = (char *)calloc(sizeof(char) * MAX_CMD_BUFF,1);
l_ret_val = WideCharToMultiByte(
                    CP_UTF8,
                    NULL,                         // performance and mapping flags
                    p_sql_command,          // wide-character string
                    -1,                         // number of chars in string
                    (LPSTR)p_sql_commandMBCS,// buffer for new string
                    MAX_CMD_BUFF,                    // size of buffer
                    NULL, // default for unmappable chars
                    NULL // set when default char used
l_org_length = p_ptr_dbproc->CmdBuffLen;
l_newcmd_length = strlen(p_sql_commandMBCS);
p_ptr_dbproc->CmdBuff[[l_org_length]] = '\0';
if( l_org_length )
l_org_length++;
if( (l_org_length + l_newcmd_length) >= MAX_CMD_BUFF )
if( l_org_length == 0 )
OdbcReuseStmtHandle( p_ptr_dbproc );
else
strcat(p_ptr_dbproc->CmdBuff, " ");
     l_org_length +=2;
strcat(p_ptr_dbproc->CmdBuff, p_sql_commandMBCS);
p_ptr_dbproc->CmdBuffLen = l_org_length + l_newcmd_length;
if (p_sql_commandMBCS != NULL)
     free(p_sql_commandMBCS);
return( SUCCEED );
Function OdbcSqlExec_
//SQLExecDirect Requires data of Unsigned Char type. Thus the above process is valid...
//But i am not getting what is the exact problem...
SQLRETURN OdbcSqlExec( DBPROCESS *p_ptr_dbproc )
SQLRETURN l_ret_val;
SQLINTEGER l_db_error_code=0;
     int     i,l_occur = 1;
     char     *token_list[[50]][[2]] =
{     /*"to_date(","convert(datetime,",
                                   "'yyyy-mm-dd hh24:mi:ss'","1",*/
                                   "nvl","isnull" ,
                                   "to_number(","convert(int,",
                                   /*"to_char(","convert(char,",*/
                                   /*"'yyyymmdd'","112",
                                   "'hh24miss'","108",*/
                                   "sysdate",     "getdate()",
                                   "format_date", "dbo.format_date",
                                   "format_amount", "dbo.format_amount",
                                   "to_char","dbo.to_char",
                                   "to_date", "dbo.to_date",
                                   "unique","distinct",
                                   "\0","\0"};
char          *l_qry_lwr;
l_qry_lwr = (char *)calloc(sizeof(char) * (MAX_CMD_BUFF), 1);
l_ret_val = SQLExecDirect( p_ptr_dbproc->hStmt,
(SQLCHAR *)p_ptr_dbproc->CmdBuff,
SQL_NTS );
switch( l_ret_val )
case SQL_SUCCESS :
case SQL_NO_DATA :
ClearCmdBuff( p_ptr_dbproc );
p_ptr_dbproc->LastStmtRetcode = l_ret_val;
if (l_qry_lwr != NULL)
     free(l_qry_lwr);
return( SUCCEED );
case SQL_NEED_DATA :
case SQL_ERROR :
case SQL_SUCCESS_WITH_INFO :
case SQL_STILL_EXECUTING :
case SQL_INVALID_HANDLE :
I do not see much issue in the code... The process flow is quite valid...
But now i am not getting whether,
1) storing the string in CmdBuff is creating issue
2) SQLExecDirect si creating an issue(and some other function can be used here)...
3) Odbc Driver creating an issue and want some Client Setting to be done(though i have tried doing some permutation combination)...
Any kind of help would be appreciated,
Thanks & Regards,
Pratik
Edited by: prats on Feb 27, 2009 12:57 PM

Hey Sergiusz,
You were bang on target...
Though it took some time for me to resolve the issue...
to use SQLExecDirectW I need my query in SQLWCHAR *, which is stored in char * in my case...
So i converted the incoming query using MultibyteToWideChar Conversion with CodePage as CP_UTF8 and
then passed it on to SQLExecDirectW...
It solved my problem
Thanks,
Pratik...
Edited by: prats on Mar 3, 2009 2:41 PM

CRVS2010 Beta - Cannot export report to PDF with unicode characters

My report has some unicode data (Chinese), it can be previewed properly in the windows form report viewer. However, if I export the report document to PDF file, the unicode characters in exported file are all displayed as a square.
In the version of Crystal Report 2008 R2, it can export the Chinese characters to PDF when I select a Chinese font in report. But VS2010 beta cannot export the Chinese characters even a Chinese font is selected.

Barry, what is the specific font you are using?
The below is a reformatted response from Program Management:
Using non-Chinese font with Unicode characters (Chinese) the issue is reproducible when using Arial font in Unicode characters field. After changing the Unicode character to Simsun (A Chinese font named 宋体 in report), the problem is solved in Cortez and CR both.
Ludek

Filenames with unicode characters

Hello, I have a question regarding filenames with unicode characters on an arabic windows xp.
I have a string, which the user entered and want to create a file with this string as filename. So my question:
Which unicode characters are allowed in a filename? I know, that on a german windows " / \ * ? < > : * are not allowed from the ASCII set, but which unicode chars are allowed? Is this language dependend on windows? Maybe there exists a method, which checks a string for this allowed characters.
Thanks for your help

AFAIK the illegal characters are always the same (you listed them already) and as long as the filesystem supports it (read: you use NTFS and not FAT) you may use any other unicode character.
You might have troubles displaying those characters 'though if you don't happen to have the correct fonts installed, but that would only be a cosmetic issue.

Performance of JEditorPane with unicode characters

Hi,
I'm using a JEditorPane to edit rather large (> 15000 words) but simple HTML files. Everyting is fine until I add even a single unicode character to the text with a character code higher than 255, like a Greek omega (\u03A9). With the unicode character the control starts to take an incredibly long time to redraw (sometimes minutes) when you resize it, for instance. The strangest thing is that removing the character again does not restore performance. Can anyone explain why this is happening?
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
public class EditorPaneTest {
public static void main(String[] args) {
StringBuffer html = new StringBuffer();
html.append("<html><body>");
// Uncomment next line, run and resize frame to see problem
// html.append("<p>\u03A9</p>");
for (int i = 0; i < 2000; i++) {
html.append("<p>Testing, testing, testing...</p>");
html.append("</body></html>");
JFrame jFrame = new JFrame("Test");
jFrame.setSize(300, 300);
JEditorPane jEditorPane = new JEditorPane();
jEditorPane.setEditorKit(new HTMLEditorKit());
jFrame.add(new JScrollPane(jEditorPane));
jFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JInternalFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
jFrame.setVisible(true);
jEditorPane.setText(html.toString());
}Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Rasmus

In the meantime, I had to solve my problem one way or another, and the only thing that came up to my mind was to use JavaMail API.
It is not quite what I was hoping for, because it doesn't provide opening of default e-mail client on local machine, but at least it can send e-mail with Unicode characters in the subjects line, recipient addresses, etc.
Make a new message using JavaMail and then set it's properties in a fairly simple manner, like this:
message.setSubject( MimeUtility.encodeText("+ ... some Unicode text with Cyrillic symbols ... +", "UTF-8", "B") );I'd still like to see if there are any suggestions on how to do the similar thing with java.awt.Desktop.
Regards,
PS

Does photoshop cs5 sdk support file names with unicode characters?

Hi,
For the export module, does the windows sdk have support for filenames with unicode characters?
The ExportRecord struct in PIExport.h has an attribute filename declared as char array.
So I have a doubt whether filenames with unicode characters will be supported for export module.
Thanks in advance,
Senthil.

SPPlatformFileSpecificationW is not available in ReadImageDocumentDesc.
It has SPPlatformFileSpecification_t which is coming as null for export module.
I am using phostoshop cs5 sdk for windows.
Thanks,
Senthil.

Execute a DML query its length exceeds 4000 characters with execute immediate statement.

I want to execute a DML query with execute immediate statement. That DML query length exceeds 4000 characters. This query has Xquery related conditions, i can not split the query. when i tried execute it is giving "string literal too long". I tried with DBMS_SQL.Parse() and DBMS_SQL.Execute also, but it is giving same error. I have to execute this DML query inside a Procedure. Please help me to resolve this. We are using oracle 10g version
Thanks & Regards,
K.Kedarnadh

Actually Query is a dynamic query. Query length will exceeds if the no of domains\domain values \products exceeds. Any way Below one is current dynamic query, which is generated within procedure
SELECT
IVT.ID_IVT
    ,IVT.ID_INS_IVT
,EXTRACTVALUE(IVT.DOCUMENT_IVT,'//productName/text()') AS PRODUCTNAME
,EXTRACTVALUE(IVT.DOCUMENT_IVT,'//elementName/text()') AS INSTANCENAME
,EXTRACTVALUE(IVT.DOCUMENT_IVT,'//elementInternalName/text()') AS INTERNALNAME
    ,CTG.NAME_CTG
    ,CTR.NAME_CTR
    ,MDL.NAME_MDL
,IVT.REEDIT_FLAG_IVT
    FROM VARIATION_IVT IVT INNER JOIN CATEGORY_CTG CTG ON CTG.ID_CTG=IVT.ID_CTG_IVT
AND IVT.STATUS_IVT='Active' AND IVT.DELETE_FLAG_IVT=0 AND IVT.ID_PRJ_IVT=1
AND IVT.DOCUMENT_IVT.existsnode('.//domain[domainName="Jurisdictions" and (domainValue="Delhi" or domainValue="Bangladesh" or domainValue="Mumbai" or domainValue="India" or domainValue="Pakistan" or domainValue="Nepal" or domainValue="Maldives" or domainValue="Kolkata" or domainValue="Bhutan" or domainValue="Chennai" or domainValue="ALL")]')=1 AND IVT.DOCUMENT_IVT.existsnode('.//domain[domainName="Channels" and (domainValue="Agents" or domainValue="SBI" or domainValue="Maruti" or domainValue="Direct" or domainValue="CitiFinancial" or domainValue="SCB" or domainValue="BankAssurance" or domainValue="CitiBank" or domainValue="Employees" or domainValue="GE" or domainValue="Brokers" or domainValue="Telemarketing" or domainValue="Agency" or domainValue="ALL")]')=1 AND IVT.DOCUMENT_IVT.existsnode('.//domain[domainName="ModeofDelivery" and (domainValue="Walkin" or domainValue="Internet" or domainValue="ALL")]')=1 AND IVT.DOCUMENT_IVT.existsnode('.//context[(productName="ALL" or productName="A009" or productName="A010" or productName="A046" or productName="AccidentShieldClassic" or productName="AccidentShieldOnline" or productName="AM01" or productName="AM02" or productName="AME_Cancellation" or productName="ARHG" or productName="ARPA" or productName="B003" or productName="B004" or productName="B007" or productName="B008" or productName="B009" or productName="B010" or productName="B012" or productName="B013" or productName="B015" or productName="B016" or productName="B017" or productName="BC04_PA" or productName="BC06_FDP" or productName="BC06_PA" or productName="BC09" or productName="BC10" or productName="BC12" or productName="BC13" or productName="BF03" or productName="BS01" or productName="BS02" or productName="C017" or productName="C035" or productName="C036" or productName="C037" or productName="C038" or productName="C040" or productName="C041" or productName="C041Gold" or productName="C041New" or productName="C045HomeContents" or productName="C048" or productName="C049" or productName="C054" or productName="C057" or productName="C060Building" or productName="C060Contents" or productName="C060FDP" or productName="C061Building" or productName="C061Contents" or productName="C062" or productName="C063" or productName="C067" or productName="C070" or productName="C072" or productName="C074" or productName="C077" or productName="C081" or productName="C082" or productName="C087" or productName="C088" or productName="CITIFOREVER" or productName="CITISECURE" or productName="CITICHILDPLAN" or productName="D001" or productName="DB01" or productName="DD01" or productName="DD02" or productName="DD03" or productName="DD04" or productName="DD09" or productName="DD10" or productName="E005" or productName="E011" or productName="E016" or productName="E020" or productName="E030" or productName="E034" or productName="E040" or productName="E041" or productName="E045HCP" or productName="E045HSP" or productName="E049" or productName="E049New" or 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Query regarding Handling Unicode characters in XML

All,
My application reads a flat file in series of bytes, I
create a XMl document out of the data. The data contains Unicode characters.
I use a XSLT to create XML file. While creating it I don't face any issues
but later if I try to parse the constructed XMl file, i get a sax parsing exception
(Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference _"<not visible clearly in Browser>"_ is an invalid XML character.)
Can some one advice on how to tackle this.
regards,
D
Edited by: user9165249 on 07-Jan-2011 08:10

How to tackle it? Don't allow your transformation to produce characters which are invalid in XML. The XML Recommendation specifies what characters are allowed and what characters aren't, in section 2.2: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets. The invalid characters can't come from the XML which you are transforming so they must be coming from code in your transformation.
And if you can't tell what the invalid characters are by using your browser, then send the result of the transformation to a file and use a hex editor to examine it.
By the way, this isn't a question about Unicode characters in XML, since all characters in Java are Unicode and XML is defined in terms of Unicode. So saying that your data contains Unicode characters is a tautology. It couldn't do anything else. If your personal definition of Unicode is "weird stuff that I don't understand" then do yourself a favour, take a couple of days out and learn what Unicode is.

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This works
System.out.println("Hello World");
but this will not compile
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How do I get unicode characters into my Java source?
I am running Windows XP and editing my files using notepad.
If I save my source as ASCII it compiles, but I do not get the foreign characters.
If I save my file as utf-8 or unicode the source will not compile.

I have got it!
On Windows XP using notepad the java source file can be "saved as" Unicode.
The source can then be compiled using;
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