>>It is very small. I will zip it and email it to you right now.
>>
>>Thank you for your help.
>
>Hi Dmitry,
>
>There're 3 extra bytes (0xEFBBBF) at the beginning of the XML string. They're called a byte order mark (BOM), part of the unicode standard. See
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM for details. The bytes 0xEFBBBF denote the BOM in UTF-8. I don't know why XmlAdapter recognizes BOM in the file but not in the string. The workaround is easy.
oXml = CREATEOBJECT("XMLAdapter")
>*IF lcXml = CHR(0xEF) + CHR(0xBB) + CHR(0xBF)
>IF lcXml = 0hEFBBBF
> oXml.LoadXML( SUBSTR(lcXml,4))
>ELSE
> oXml.LoadXML( lcXml)
>ENDIF
>
Sergey,
Thank you for the explanation and work around. I did see those 3 bytes but didn't know what it was all about. Now I have two work- arounds, either copy to file and get it from the file or using SUBSTR() as you suggested.
Thank you for your help.
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