Attempting To Import A Portal Fails With : XML-20221: (Fatal Error) Invalid Char (Doc ID 2743654.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 24, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Attempting to import a portal fails with the following error:

ERROR

Importing from WLST using importWebCenterPortal command:

Importing from WebCenter Portal UI:

STEPS

The issue can be reproduced at will with the following steps:

1. Export the portal.
    
2. Import the portal to a target instance.
   Here you will get the error.
    
3. Extract the portal-entities.xml file from the portal export (.par) file.
    
4. Review the portal-entities.xml file.
   Here you will see group entries with invalid / non-ASCII characters.
    
   Entries looks like this:
   
   
   <portalEntity type="oracle.webcenter.portal.persistence.MemberResource">
          <attributes>
          <stringAttribute name="IsGroup">Y</stringAttribute>
          <stringAttribute name="UserId"><Group-id></stringAttribute>
          ...
          <stringAttribute name="UserGUID"><non-ASCII characters here></stringAttribute>
          <stringAttribute name="Name"><non-ASCII characters here></stringAttribute>
          ...
          </attributes>
          ...
   </portalEntity>
    
      
5. Running the following query from the webcenter schema in the source instance shows the USER_GUID attribute for groups with invalid / non-ASCII characters.
   
   
   set pagesize 1000
   column MEMBER_TYPE format a11
   set markup html on
   spool space_members.html
   select s.SPACE_ID, s.DISPLAY_NAME, u.USER_ID,
            decode(is_group,'N','User','Group') Member_Type,
            u.USER_GUID
   from WC_SPACE_HEADER s, WC_SPACE_USR_DETAIL u
   where u.SPACE_ID = s.SPACE_ID
   order by SPACE_ID, Member_Type, USER_ID;
   spool off
   set markup html off
    
   
   

Cause

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