[Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

[Julian Tenney]

This looks suspicious: that's not escaping, right? That looks to me like errant characters creeping in from somewhere? Paste from word, etc?



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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin
Sent: 12 May 2014 12:53
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss







On 12/05/14 12:41, Julian Tenney wrote:

> What beats me is why the file should break halfway through a tag name.





What I've seen is that the PHP (or whatever) can't read the XML file as it has the wrong encoding specified, or it just somehow contains characters that are invalid.



see e.g.



http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14463573/php-simplexml-load-file-invalid-character-error



https://chrismckee.co.uk/saving-user-content-to-xml-error-contains-none-utf-8-content-aka-how-to-remove-invalid-characters-in-utf-8/





David.



>

> -----Original Message-----

> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>

> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David

> Goodwin

> Sent: 12 May 2014 12:37

> To: For Xerte technical developers

> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

>

> Is it possible that it's a unicode ` character?

>

>

> I've seen a number of UTF-8 related issues with the data.xml etc files.

>

> David.

>







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