Symptom
- An ABAP trace is recorded via /SDF/E2E_TRACE transaction. When uploading the BusinessTransaction.xml in the Trace Analysis application in the Root Cause Analysis work center in the Solution Manager, the following error is raised:
[Server-side exception]undefined
- In the Solution Manager Java defaultTrace, the following error stack is written:
Location: com.sap.sup.admin.e2e.trace.gwweb.E2eTraceServlet
Text: doPost(...)
[EXCEPTION]
com.sap.sup.admin.e2e.trace.api.E2ETraceProcessingException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "�" is an invalid XML character.
at com.sap.sup.admin.e2e.trace.api.upload.XmlUpload.parseXml(XmlUpload.java:360)
at com.sap.sup.admin.e2e.trace.api.upload.XmlUpload.processBusinessTransactionData(XmlUpload.java:75)
at com.sap.sup.admin.e2e.trace.gwejb.E2eTraceBean.processBusinessTransactionData(E2eTraceBean.java:846)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.sap.engine.services.ejb3.runtime.impl.RequestInvocationContext.proceedFinal(RequestInvocationContext.java:47)
...many more...
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.chainedRequest(Processor.java:468)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor$FCAProcessorThread.process(Processor.java:262)
at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.rcm.RequestProcessorThread.run(RequestProcessorThread.java:56)
at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.Executable.run(Executable.java:122)
at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.Executable.run(Executable.java:101)
at com.sap.engine.core.thread.execution.CentralExecutor$SingleThread.run(CentralExecutor.java:328)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "�" is an invalid XML character.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:195)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:174)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:388)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1504)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanCharReferenceValue(XMLScanner.java:1385)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanAttributeValue(XMLScanner.java:936)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanAttribute(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:470)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:273)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDriver.next(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:2776)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:647)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:135)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:513)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:825)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:745)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:128)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1208)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:536)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:395)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:198)
at com.sap.sup.admin.e2e.trace.api.upload.XmlUpload.parseXml(XmlUpload.java:356)
... 71 more
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Environment
- SAP Solution Manager 7.1
- SAP Solution Manager 7.2
- SAP Netweaver ABAP as managed system
Product
Keywords
Character reference "�" is an invalid XML character Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Character reference "�" is an invalid XML character [Server-side exception] undefined , KBA , SV-SMG-DIA-APP-TA , Trace Analysis , Problem
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