Error : “SyntaxError : Unexpected token: <” in the advanced pdf.

This error is to check for invalid XML characters [<, >, “, ‘, &] in the template. These characters need to be replaced with the corresponding Escape String as shown below.

<       &lt;

>       &gt;

”      &quot;

‘      &apos;

&    &amp;

Using the below mentioned function, we can solve the issue.

function escapeXml(unsafe){

    try{
          if(unsafe) {
            log.debug("inside escape");

            return unsafe.replace(/[<>&'"]/g, function (c) {

                switch (c) {

                    case '<':

                        return '&lt;';

                    case '>':

                        return '&gt;';

                    case '&':

                        return '&amp;';

                    case '\'':

                        return '&apos;';

                    case '"':

                        return '&quot;';

                }

            });

        }

    }

    catch (e) {

        log.debug("error@unsafe", e.message)

    }

}

Using this function in the variables, which store the special characcters.

Eg:   obj.loc_address1=escapeXml(loc_address1);