[Xerte-dev] Re: Invalid character breaking data.xml parsing (and therefore export)

[David Goodwin]

Ah, I'd just done a :%s/^M//g within vim to remove them…. ;-)

Then the xmllint --format makes it readable. 

The vim :%s…. was probably not necessary - but I noticed it had weird line endings.


David.


On 6 Nov 2012, at 11:56, Tom Reijnders <reijnders at tor.nl> wrote:

> No, the lne endings are not DOS.... they seem to be DOS on Linux because of the ˆM characters, but they are MacOS line-endings.
> 
> Really, whoever thought of this should be shot....
> 
> Linux/Unix uses \n (or ASCII 10, or ˆJ, or newline)
> MacOS uses \r (or ASCII 13, or ˆM, or return)
> and DOS uses \n\r (or ASCII 10, followed by ASCII 13, return)
> 
> ˆA is ASCII 1, not a space in Windows....
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk> schreef:
> 
> On 6 Nov 2012, at 11:43, Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> is ^A not whitespace on windows?
>> 
> 
> I've no idea. I'm not a Windows person.
> 
> I know the data.xml is encoded/saved with DOS style line endings.
> 
> 
> Should XOT try and validate whatever XML is passed into it when the editor calls save on it and reject (?) it if invalid? Alternatively I suppose I could run iconv (or similar) over the xml file and try to remove any invalid characters?
> 
> What PHP file is called when the flash editor asks to save?
> 
> 
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