SAS XML Mapper uses UTF-8 as the default encoding when opening an XML file if the file does not contain a line that stipulates the encoding. Here is an example of a line that defines the encoding:

The line above means that your file is encoded in Latin-1.

If an XML file does not include the line that defines the encoding and the file does not use UTF-8 encoding, it then fails to open in SAS XML Mapper with the following error:

This issue happens because the file contains characters that are not recognized, and the log indicates the specific characters that are causing that problem. The following log message is an example:

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