Bad Character on XML export

[mjdeslon]

On exporting to xml i get 100s of bad characters. Like below:

The problem is highlighted in yellow. It is a small square not a zero. Any thoughts on how to remove this on XML export...I have no idea where to begin.

Michael D

[Russ Ward]

Michael,

Are these characters replacing others that used to be there, or are they just appearing out of nowhere? If they are replacing characters, then you have some sort of encoding issue between FM and whatever text reader you are using. If they are appearing out of nowhere, there must be some garbage in your FM files (not uncommon, especially if the content ever came from Word). To solve the latter problem, save your FM files as MIF and then back as FM again (a.k.a. the "MIF wash").

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand]

Michael,

If Russ is right (which is quite likely) you will find the code for that character is 13 (aka Carriage Return). You can remove those useless characters by  from FrameMaker documents by MIF washing or simply by searching for \x0D and replacing by nothing.

If not, it is still useful to know which code is behind the character. Any decent text editor has a binary mode which would give you the hex codes.

- Michael M.-H.