Certain Characters Must Be Escaped When Using Transaction Protocol

Metastorm

The information in this article applies to product: e-Work 6.x

Issue

• Data being sent to the e-Work engine using the Transaction Protocol is not being written to the database and is generating errors in the Windows application event log.

  Errors may be similar to the following:
  "Unable to load xml into DOM. Error(-1072896749) : Whitespace is not allowed at this location."
  or
  "Unable to load xml into DOM. Error(-1072896764) : A name was started with an invalid character."

Resolution

• In XML, certain characters may need to be escaped before being sent to the e-Work engine (e.g. - data, which a user enters on a form, that is passed to the e-Work engine using the TP). These characters include:

  Character	Escape Value
  ampersand (&)	\&
  less than (<)	\<
  greater than (>)	\>
  double quote (")	\"
  single quote (&\#39;)	\'