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

[Ron Mitchell]

In my experience when there are problems like this preview.xml breaks first
then data.xml but I guess it depends if the user is in the habit of hitting
publish as a matter of course in which case both get corrupted.

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 May 2014 13:17
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

On this occasion, the file has broken half way through a CDATA section, so
everything ought to have escaped OK.

Just to be certain: data.xml is the published file, right, and preview.xml
is the editing file?

In which case it is the published file that has broken, and the editing file
is complete with a <learningObject> tag. I'll attach them, I'm just asking
if he minds if I share the files.

-----Original Message-----
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] 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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