Symptoms
Electronic reporting (GER) framework allows to configure GER formats for parsing incoming electronic documents to use information from them for application’s data update or data import. The incoming documents can be either in TXT or XML format.
The exception 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.’ can be thrown when user imports data from XML file that contains at least one empty XML element represented as self-closing XML tag (for example, as follows:
To work around this issue, indicate an empty element avoiding usage of self-closing tags (for example, as follows:
The exception 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object.’ can be thrown when user imports data from XML file that contains at least one empty XML element represented as self-closing XML tag (for example, as follows:
To work around this issue, indicate an empty element avoiding usage of self-closing tags (for example, as follows:
Resolution
The changes in the hotfix contain the code modification that improves the parsing of XML files by the ER framework. With this fix, self-closing XML tags in the incoming electronic documents are processed properly.
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