OD0001: XML is not well-formed: Invalid byte 1 of 1-byte UTF-8 sequence.

Pinnacle 21 Support Define.xml
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This is a typical error when one does copy-past from Word documents or uses Excel for generation of define.xml. This is a Microsoft problem, not a define.xml or XML problem. Also see:

and especially the comment of Lex Jansen at the bottom.

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Thanks. That was indeed the problem. There were some characters entered as ‘symbols’ from word/excel. It would be very helpfull if the validator provided line numbers for these types of errors.

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You can blame this one on Microsoft. In XML you need to be really strict with your character encodings.

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Can u explain what this error means and how can i remedy this?

Thanks.