Re: [xml] Premature end of data in tag

[Morus Walter <morus walter tanto-xipolis de>]

Gavin Sherry writes:

> Useful information attached this time. Document encoding as follows:
>
> <?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
Well the character displayed in the error message is 027 (octal)
or #x17 (hex) which is some Ascii Control Character (my man page names it
'ETB' whateverthatis).

Given that allowed characters are 
Char    ::=    #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] |
    [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
#x17 is not an allowed character in xml, and this applies to CDATA also.

If you parse a xml file, I suggest you have a close look at the bytes
at the erroneous part of the text, eg. using 'od -c' (on unix of course) 
which helps a lot seeing control charaters that are possibly hidden by 
other tools.
If this character is not found in the xml file, then something strange
is going on in xmllint.

HTH,
     Morus