RE: [xml-dev] Exception in parseCLOB procedure.

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>]

> What can be the reason for the exception "Invalid UTF8 encoding" with
> Oracle XML parser while parsing a XML document containing foreign
> characters ??

The most likely reason is that the input document is encoded in something
other than UTF-8 (e.g. ISO-8859-1) but has no encoding declaration, so the
XML parser is trying to read it using the default UTF-8 encoding, and is
failing.

Mike Kay