Smartview: XML Load Error: An invalid character was found in text content.

Hi,
Im using hyperion 11.1.2.1 with SmartView installed with Office 2007. A lot of forms are working fine on it but we have entered data recently on a number of them and we are unable to open them in SmartView either through the icon and menu options in workspace or through the smartview panel in excel 2007. The error we are getting is "XML Load Error: An invalid character was found in text content."
Cheers,
Imran

Have a look on Oracle Support - "SmartView XML Load Error: "An Invalid Character was Found in Text Content" [ID 968808.1]"
It may be the same issue as you are experiencing.
Cheers
John
http://john-goodwin.blogspot.com/

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AND TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(PS.GL_DATE_CLOSED,'DD/MON/YY'),'MON-YYYY')
BETWEEN TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(:P_todate,'YYYY/MM/DD'),'MON-YYYY') AND TO_CHAR(TO_DATE(:P_todate,'YYYY/MM/DD'),'MON-YYYY')
--AND ps.gl_date_closed > TO_DATE(:P_todate,'MON-YYYY')
AND ct.customer_trx_id = gld.customer_trx_id
AND gld.account_class = 'REC'
AND gld.latest_rec_flag = 'Y'
AND gld.code_combination_id = c.code_combination_id
AND sales.salesrep_id is not null and sales.name is not null
-- and ps.payment_schedule_id+0 < 9999
-- AND SALES.salesrep_id ='1001'
GROUP BY SALES.name,
--ps.CLASS,
SALES.salesrep_id

So to_date function accepts a string as input and returns a date. When a date is input instead, it is implicity converted to the required type of the function paremeter, which is a string, so that to_date can convert it back to a date again.
If you are lucky with the implicit conversion, you get the same date back, if you are not you might get a different date or an error.
From your query it appears that this conversion from a date, to a string, to a date, and then back to a string using to_char this time, is being done to remove the time or day part of the date. The actual range comparison is being done on strings rather than dates, which is dangerous as strings sort differently than dates.
In this example if I sort by date, Jan 01 comes between Dec 00 and Feb 01 as you would expect.
SQL> select * from t order by d;
D
12-01-2000
01-01-2001
02-01-2001When converted to strings, Feb 01 comes between Dec 00 and Jan 01, which is probably not the desired result
SQL> select * from t order by to_char(d,'DD-MON-YY');
D
12-01-2000
02-01-2001
01-01-2001If you want to remove time and day parts of dates you should use the trunc function
trunc(d) removes the time, trunc(d,'mm') will remove the days to start of month.
http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions201.htm#i79761

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