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RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

Sudipto Choudhury — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:13:54 GMT

hi,

Please try this DoubleQuoteFix - FusionCharts.js. We have other issues to test on this quote fix before releasing. But you can give it a try if you need to supply XML attribute (in dataXML method) values in double quotes.

Tried these OK:

myChart.setDataXML("<chart caption='Monthly Sales Summary' ><set label='January' value='1740' /><set label='February' value='19800' /></chart>");

myChart.setDataXML('<chart caption=\'Monthly Sales Summary\' ><set label=\'January\' value=\'1740\' /><set label=\'February\' value=\'19800\' /></chart>');

myChart.setDataXML('<chart caption="Monthly Sales Summary" ><set label="January" value="1740" /><set label="February" value="19800" /></chart>');

myChart.setDataXML("<chart caption=\"Monthly Sales Summary\" ><set label=\"January\" value=\"1740\" /><set label=\"February\" value=\"19800\" /></chart>");

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

sunil — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:31:39 GMT

Just a follow up to my last post.

I broke down and used a regular expression to convert double quotes to single quotes, and the problem went away on Safari/Firefox (using FusionCharts.js version 1.2.1.beta).

It would be nice to fix this problem for all browsers. It just doesn't seem right to have to convert perfectly valid XML into something else :)

Thanks!

Sunil

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

sunil — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:24:39 GMT

Hi,

I've downloaded your fix attached to the above post. It fixes the problem with using double quotes (") in your XML only for the IE browser.

On Safari (Mac) and Firefox (Windows, haven't tried Mac) I still get the "Invalid XML Data" error.

In addition, I also see a spurious bit of XML get added to the page. It adds "/> after the chart. I assume a double quote in my XML is causing this too.

I am generating XML with Builder (Ruby on Rails). I know the XML is valid because I can successfully generate charts when I manually embed the chart in my HTML... this works on all platforms. But as soon as I try to render the chart w/javascript I run into this problem.

Any input you can provide would be appreciated.

Also, does this problem exist in Fusion Charts 3.0?

Sunil

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

Sudipto Choudhury — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:10:43 GMT

Hi,
Thanks for pointing this out.
Now you even can pass dataXML having " (which was not working erstwhile) with this new JS (attached) FusionCharts.js. Its a small fix that i added. We will release this in our next release.

Note :Please rename FusionCharts.js.txt to FusionCharts.js.

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

fxyekim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:07:12 GMT

Finally!!!. Thanks for sugessting the string. It got me thru debug faster and with shorter script. I don't have to parse XML anymore, just send the XSL transformed string and replace the double quotes.

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

fxyekim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:15:19 GMT

One more idea, do a replace " with ' on my string using regular expression.

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

fxyekim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:13:35 GMT

Just confirmed. FCFree has the same bug on setDataXML method.

<set label='name' value='1' />, works

<set label="name" value="1" />, does not work

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

fxyekim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:49:42 GMT

The setDataXML expects the string to have single quotes for the attributes. This is Version 3. I dropping back down to the Version2 or Free and see what happens.

This works.

myChart.setDataXML("<chart caption='test' decimals='0' enableSmartLabels='1'><set label='Alchemy' value='4' /><set label='Orion/Pegasus' value='38' /><set label='Other' value='56' /><set label='SandCraft' value='34' /><set label='Scalable Processor Solutions' value='57' /></chart>");

This does not work.

myChart.setDataXML('<chart caption="test" decimals="0" enableSmartLabels="1"><set label="Alchemy" value="4" /><set label="Orion/Pegasus" value="38" /><set label="Other" value="56" /><set label="SandCraft" value="34" /><set label="Scalable Processor Solutions" value="57" /></chart>');

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

fxyekim — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:32:13 GMT

I tried passing doc.xml.toString(). did not work.

I tried removing the xml declaration, the example for setDataXML did not have it. did not work.

I tried passing the string from xsl transform without the declaration. still did not work.

The error says malformed XML. This is the string I'm setting. I pasted this string in, and still did not work.

'<chart caption="test" decimals="0" enableSmartLabels="1"><set label="Alchemy" value="4" /><set label="Orion/Pegasus" value="38" /><set label="Other" value="56" /><set label="SandCraft" value="34" /><set label="Scalable Processor Solutions" value="57" /></chart>'

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

Sudipto Choudhury — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:04:22 GMT

Hi,

Can you try passing the XML as String using toString().

RE: ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

fxyekim — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:36:37 GMT

Alright, now I know the problem with document.write(), it's doesn't work for XML.

Now, I'm using the DOM to parse the string returned by an XSL transform. I then use the xml of the returned DOM object as the setDataXML. Now I get a different error message:

ERROR: Invalid XML encountered. The XML declaration is not properly terminated.

How can that be, the xml was created by DOM?

ERROR: Invalid XML encountered.

fxyekim — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:18:28 GMT

I'm pulling db generated xml and using xslt to transform it to FC readable XML. The output xml is written to a webpage by document.write(fc_xml). This page is then used as the URL for dataURL.

The content is not visible if fc_xml is loaded, but the source listing is correct.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<chart caption="test" decimals="0" enableSmartLabels="1">
<set label="Alchemy" value="4" />
<set label="Orion/Pegasus" value="38" />
<set label="Other" value="56" />
<set label="SandCraft" value="34" />
<set label="Scalable Processor Solutions" value="57" />
</chart>

I always get this error: "ERROR: Invalid XML encountered. A start-tag is not matched with an end-tag. Click the above "dataURL Invoked" link to see the XML in browser Or check the XML data provided."