Question

I have an InfoPath form in a SharePoint workflow. I’m trying to use a blank copy of the XML produced by the InfoPath to create new instances of the form for the document library to start the workflow, thats not where my problem is. I have an app which copies the file to the document library but when i try to populate the XML i get this error:

Data at the root level is invalid.
Line 1, position 1

at the line which reads

doc.LoadXml("copiedFile.xml");

I have no idea why it does the, as to my knowledge the XML is well formed (as this is done automatically by InfoPath) so i can’t see where the problem is.

the first four lines of the XML are as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  
<?mso-infoPathSolution name="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:infopath:InfoPathForm:-myXSD-2009-10-12T13-20-27" solutionVersion="1.1.0.84" productVersion="12.0.0.0" PIVersion="1.0.0.0" href="http://seed-dev1/FormServerTemplates/InfoPathForm%5B3%5D.xsn"?>
<?mso-application progid="InfoPath.Document" versionProgid="InfoPath.Document.2"?>
<my:myFields xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dfs="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/dataFormSolution" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:my="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2009-10-12T13:20:27" xmlns:xd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003" xml:lang="en-US">

Answer 1

Could try giving…

doc.Load("copiedFile.xml");

a go.