[CONFSERVER-42851] "Invalid white space character" error thrown when adding an image to a page which contains white space character in the title - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.

Type: Bug
Resolution: Unresolved
Priority: Low
Fix Version/s: None
Affects Version/s: 5.9.5, 1000.100.0, 6.4.2, 7.11.1, 7.12.0, 7.19.4, 7.19.6
Component/s: Content - Page
Labels:
- affects-cloud
- affects-server

Support reference count:
31
Symptom Severity:
Severity 3 - Minor
UIS:
1
Bug Fix Policy:
View Atlassian Server bug fix policy

NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

Summary

"Invalid white space character" error thrown when adding an image to a page which contains white space character in the title.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a page
Add a white space into the page title.
- For example, copy paste the content of this whitespace.txt file
Save the page.
Edit the page. Add an image to this page.

Expected Results

Image is uploaded successfully, or
Confluence to handle more gracefully, such as provide a better explanation of this error message, or
Have a better mechanism to prevent pages (or spaces) to be saved while there is an invalid character in the title

Actual Results

Image failed to be uploaded:

The below exception is thrown in the atlassian-confluence.log file:

2016-06-13 21:32:59,327 ERROR [http-nio-8595-exec-10] [confluence.plugins.dragdrop.UploadAction] execute Failed to save file.
 -- referer: http://bjorn:8595/confluence/pages/editpage.action?pageId=1769481 | url: /confluence/plugins/drag-and-drop/upload.action | userName: admin | action: upload
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected exception writing to stringwriter. java.io.IOException: Error while processing callback: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables.writeToString(Streamables.java:192)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.DefaultEditorFormatService.convertEmbeddedImageToEdit(DefaultEditorFormatService.java:103)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.dragdrop.UploadAction.getHtmlToEmbedFileIntoEditorContent(UploadAction.java:220)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.dragdrop.UploadAction.execute(UploadAction.java:144)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:168)
...
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Error while processing callback: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables$XmlStreamWriterTemplateStreamable.writeTo(Streamables.java:104)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables.writeToString(Streamables.java:188)
	... 329 more
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseNsStreamWriter.doWriteAttr(BaseNsStreamWriter.java:494)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseNsStreamWriter.writeAttribute(BaseNsStreamWriter.java:230)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.editor.embed.EditorEmbeddedImageTitleWriter.writeEmbeddedImageTag(EditorEmbeddedImageTitleWriter.java:58)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.view.embed.DefaultAttachedImageResourceMarshaller.lambda$marshal$397(DefaultAttachedImageResourceMarshaller.java:126)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.DefaultXmlStreamWriterTemplate.execute(DefaultXmlStreamWriterTemplate.java:36)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables$XmlStreamWriterTemplateStreamable.writeTo(Streamables.java:102)
	... 330 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.XmlWriter.throwInvalidChar(XmlWriter.java:545)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BufferingXmlWriter.writeAttrValue(BufferingXmlWriter.java:1058)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BufferingXmlWriter.writeAttribute(BufferingXmlWriter.java:891)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseNsStreamWriter.doWriteAttr(BaseNsStreamWriter.java:483)
	... 335 more

Notes

Other scenarios on which this issue happens:

This error message could appear while editing a page.
When the Space Title of the space of the problematic page contains white space:

Workaround

Rename the page/space title

- - Sort By Name
  - Sort By Date
  - Ascending
  - Descending
  - Thumbnails
  - List

image-2016-06-13-21-57-54-453.png
18 kB
13/Jun/2016 1:57 PM
screenshot-1.png
9 kB
13/Jun/2016 2:11 PM
screenshot-2.png
2 kB
13/Jun/2016 2:25 PM
whitespace.txt
0.0 kB
13/Jun/2016 2:15 PM

relates to

CONFCLOUD-42851 "Invalid white space character" error thrown when adding an image to a page which contains white space character in the title

Closed

mentioned in: Page Failed to load

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Type: Bug
Resolution: Unresolved
Priority: Low
Fix Version/s: None
Affects Version/s: 5.9.5, 1000.100.0, 6.4.2, 7.11.1, 7.12.0, 7.19.4, 7.19.6
Component/s: Content - Page
Labels:
- affects-cloud
- affects-server

Support reference count:
31
Symptom Severity:
Severity 3 - Minor
UIS:
1
Bug Fix Policy:
View Atlassian Server bug fix policy

NOTE: This bug report is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding bug report.

Summary

"Invalid white space character" error thrown when adding an image to a page which contains white space character in the title.

Steps to Reproduce

Create a page
Add a white space into the page title.
- For example, copy paste the content of this whitespace.txt file
Save the page.
Edit the page. Add an image to this page.

Expected Results

Image is uploaded successfully, or
Confluence to handle more gracefully, such as provide a better explanation of this error message, or
Have a better mechanism to prevent pages (or spaces) to be saved while there is an invalid character in the title

Actual Results

Image failed to be uploaded:

The below exception is thrown in the atlassian-confluence.log file:

2016-06-13 21:32:59,327 ERROR [http-nio-8595-exec-10] [confluence.plugins.dragdrop.UploadAction] execute Failed to save file.
 -- referer: http://bjorn:8595/confluence/pages/editpage.action?pageId=1769481 | url: /confluence/plugins/drag-and-drop/upload.action | userName: admin | action: upload
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected exception writing to stringwriter. java.io.IOException: Error while processing callback: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables.writeToString(Streamables.java:192)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.DefaultEditorFormatService.convertEmbeddedImageToEdit(DefaultEditorFormatService.java:103)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.dragdrop.UploadAction.getHtmlToEmbedFileIntoEditorContent(UploadAction.java:220)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.dragdrop.UploadAction.execute(UploadAction.java:144)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork.DefaultActionInvocation.invoke(DefaultActionInvocation.java:168)
...
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Error while processing callback: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables$XmlStreamWriterTemplateStreamable.writeTo(Streamables.java:104)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables.writeToString(Streamables.java:188)
	... 329 more
Caused by: com.ctc.wstx.exc.WstxIOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseNsStreamWriter.doWriteAttr(BaseNsStreamWriter.java:494)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseNsStreamWriter.writeAttribute(BaseNsStreamWriter.java:230)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.editor.embed.EditorEmbeddedImageTitleWriter.writeEmbeddedImageTag(EditorEmbeddedImageTitleWriter.java:58)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.view.embed.DefaultAttachedImageResourceMarshaller.lambda$marshal$397(DefaultAttachedImageResourceMarshaller.java:126)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.DefaultXmlStreamWriterTemplate.execute(DefaultXmlStreamWriterTemplate.java:36)
	at com.atlassian.confluence.content.render.xhtml.Streamables$XmlStreamWriterTemplateStreamable.writeTo(Streamables.java:102)
	... 330 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Invalid white space character (0xb) in text to output
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.XmlWriter.throwInvalidChar(XmlWriter.java:545)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BufferingXmlWriter.writeAttrValue(BufferingXmlWriter.java:1058)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BufferingXmlWriter.writeAttribute(BufferingXmlWriter.java:891)
	at com.ctc.wstx.sw.BaseNsStreamWriter.doWriteAttr(BaseNsStreamWriter.java:483)
	... 335 more

Notes

Other scenarios on which this issue happens:

This error message could appear while editing a page.
When the Space Title of the space of the problematic page contains white space:

Workaround

Rename the page/space title

- - Sort By Name
  - Sort By Date
  - Ascending
  - Descending
  - Thumbnails
  - List

image-2016-06-13-21-57-54-453.png
18 kB
13/Jun/2016 1:57 PM
screenshot-1.png
9 kB
13/Jun/2016 2:11 PM
screenshot-2.png
2 kB
13/Jun/2016 2:25 PM
whitespace.txt
0.0 kB
13/Jun/2016 2:15 PM

relates to

CONFCLOUD-42851 "Invalid white space character" error thrown when adding an image to a page which contains white space character in the title

Closed

mentioned in: Page Loading...

Assignee:: Unassigned

Reporter:: Monique Khairuliana (Inactive)

Votes:: 17 Vote for this issue

Watchers:: 22 Start watching this issue

Created:: 13/Jun/2016 2:01 PM

Updated:: 24/Jan/2025 5:13 PM

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