UTF8 BOM and iFS problem

Question

Hi,
I have two UTF-8 encoded xml files on a Windows 2000 client and are trying to add them to iFS.
The iFS version is 1.1.9.0.7 running of Oracle 8i version 8.1.7.1.1 on an NT4 SP6. I have set IFS_JAVA_VERSION=1.2 to use the Oracle 8i Apache JDK. The database was created with the utf-8 character set.
The problem is as follows:
The two utf-8 encoded files are identical with the exception that one of the files have the utf-8 byte order mark (BOM) EF BB BF whereas the other does not have the BOM.
When I load the file with the BOM using the filesystem or browser upload, with the parse option, I get the following error:
Mon Jul 23 15:42:43 GMT+02:00 2001: \public\CV-Bank\Copy of CV_Patrik_Johansson.xml:
oracle.ifs.common.IfsException: IFS-12608: Error while pre-parsing with the SAXParser: at line (1), column (1): oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLParseException: Start of root element expected.
at oracle.ifs.beans.parsers.IfsXmlParser.preParse(IfsXmlParser.java, Compiled Code)
at oracle.ifs.beans.parsers.IfsXmlParser.getParserName(IfsXmlParser.java:367)
at oracle.ifs.beans.parsers.IfsXmlParser.parse(IfsXmlParser.java:276)
at oracle.ifs.beans.parsers.IfsXmlParser.parse(IfsXmlParser.java:214)
at oracle.ifs.utils.common.ParserHelper.parseExistingDocument(ParserHelper.java:379)
at oracle.ifs.protocols.ntfs.server.FileProxy.parseFile(FileProxy.java:785)
at oracle.ifs.protocols.ntfs.server.FileProxy.cleanupFile(FileProxy.java, Compiled Code)
at oracle.ifs.protocols.ntfs.server.FileProxy.runFileProxy(Native Method)
at oracle.ifs.protocols.ntfs.server.FileProxy.run(FileProxy.java, Compiled Code)The other problem is that if a UTF-8 encoded file is parsed the charachter set is set to "Western (Windows-1252)". This is true even if "UNICODE (UTF-8)" is explicitly selected in browse upload.
I have loaded the XDK for PLSQL 9.0.2.0.0A into the database and replaced the original %ORACLE_HOME%\lib\xmlparserv2.jar with the one distributed in this XDK.
Does anyone have a suggestion what to do?
Regards,
Patrik
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Answer 1

Hi SJ,
There are two final products. That is one is requirement of Oil Cans and other one is requirement of Oil Drums. So, there should be two Finish materials. "Oil Can" and "Oil Drum"
For Oil you can maintain the Base Unit of Measure as "Litres" and give other unit conversions in both Cans and drum. i.e 1 Can - 5 Litrs and 1 Drum = 200 Litres.
You always get the requirement of Oil either in Drum or in Cans only !!!
So, you can generate the Production requirement either in Cans or in Drums. Based on the total requirement of oil either in drums or in cans, you can get the Net requirement in Litres to manufacture.
> Now i want mentain bom unitwise i e canwise or drumwise.
you can maintain BOM for each finish materials as per the Base unit of Measure.
> I want to give requirement in md 61 canwise or drumwise.
You can generate the requirement for Both Drums and Cans and finally get the net requirement of Oil in Litres.
> sales order is also to be mentained canwise or drumwise.
You can have a sale order for either drums or cans or both.
Hope this clears you !!
Br,
Hari.