I create a message and generate an XmlDocument.

I send it to an endpoint on a remote system using the HTTP adapter.

The message arrives at the other end but throws an exception as it contains
an unprintable character before the opening '<' of the xml declaration.

I thought that this must be an encoding issue, so repeated the above but
explicitly defined the XmlDeclaration to use Encoding.UTF-8 ( should make no
difference as this is the default).  recompiled and redeployed.  Indeed we
have the same problem still.

I attempted to use a pass through map and use the map to omit the xml
declaration.  Still the same problem.

I have a look at the schemas which are UTF-8 and when I open them in a text
editor they do indeed show UTF-8 as the encoding.  When I open them in the
Biztalk editor they show as UTF-16 but do not make any actual change to the
actual underlying schema document which remains UTF-8.

Why is the document arriving at the other end with something in front of the
opening angle bracket?

How can I suppress this?

cheers

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PeterW

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Hi Peter,

If it's failed before the '<' opening of xml declaration, it's most likely
the problem is caused by the following BOM issue. Do you have patched your
biztalk 2004 up-to-date? Has service pack 1 been installed yet?

885897	FIX: The BizTalk Server HTTP Adapter pre-appends the byte order mark
(BOM) to request messages in BizTalk Server 2004
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;EN-US;885897

Thanks.

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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WenJun

Right on the money.

I got the hotfix and problem has gone away.

Thank you.

cheers
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PeterW


""WenJun Zhang[msft]"" wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> If it's failed before the '<' opening of xml declaration, it's most likely
> the problem is caused by the following BOM issue. Do you have patched your
> biztalk 2004 up-to-date? Has service pack 1 been installed yet?
>
> 885897	FIX: The BizTalk Server HTTP Adapter pre-appends the byte order mar
k
> (BOM) to request messages in BizTalk Server 2004
> http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;EN-US;885897
>
> Thanks.
>
> Best regards,
>
> WenJun Zhang
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
>
> When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so
> that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
.
>
>

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You are welcome Peter. I'm glad to hear the information helped.

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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