Validation Error: Malformed XML data

[NakD]

Hi,

I am getting Validation Error: Malformed XML data for XML request having Katakana/Hiragana characters in it.

Below error lines from the request report from F5

<v11:frgnfirstName>マレーシア　シンガフール</v11:frgnfirstName>

<v11:frgnlastName>ç¯ ç”°</v11:frgnlastName>

[Simon_Blakely]

Do you have an XML profile configured?

Do you have the correct schema and wsdl configured in the XML profile?

You may need to set the internal ASM variable relax_unicode_in_xml to 1

From the version 12.0.0 release notes:

> So that you can bypass unicode validation on XML and JSON profiles, we added two internal parameters:

• relax_unicode_in_xml: The default is 0 which is the current behavior. When the value is changed to 1, a bad unicode character does not produce an XML malformed violation. A bad unicode character might be a legal unicode character that does not appear in the mapping of the system's XML parser.
• relax_unicode_in_json: The default is 0 which is the current behavior. When the value is changed to 1, a bad unicode character does not produce a JSON malformed violation. A bad unicode character might be a legal unicode character that does not appear in the mapping of the system's JSON parser.

[NakD]

Thank you S Blakely,

To answer you question,

Do you have the correct schema and wsdl configured in the XML profile? - YES

Actually we send Katakana & Hirahana Japanese characters in XML like below,

<v11:frgnfirstName>マレーシア　シンガポール</v11:frgnfirstName>

<v11:frgnlastName>篠田</v11:frgnlastName>

It gets converted to below,

<v11:frgnfirstName>マレーシア　シンガフール</v11:frgnfirstName>

<v11:frgnlastName>ç¯ ç”°</v11:frgnlastName>

Request is blocked at F5 with Validation Error: Malformed XML data

Will relax_unicode_in_xml to 1 resolve this issue and F5 will pass the request to services end?

Br,

Nakul

[Simon_Blakely]

You will need to test to determine whether the issue gets resolved.

But I'm pretty sure it might.

[Samir]

Hi All,

Thanks for explanation. In order to correct you need configure and restart ASM.

/usr/share/ts/bin/add_del_internal add relax_unicode_in_xml 1.   /usr/share/ts/bin/add_del_internal add relax_unicode_in_json 1.   bigstart restart asm

Thanks

[NakD]

Thank you Samir!!