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

[Pat Lockley]

is ^A not whitespace on windows?


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:36 AM, David Goodwin <david at palepurple.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing an invalid character being added to a
> USER-FILES/xxx-xxxx-xxxxx/data.xml file which is breaking the export of the
> LO.
>
>
> From the PHP error log I see :
>
> 05-Nov-2012 17:55:01 Europe/London] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_file():
> /xxxxxxx/155-elsjbh-Nottingham/template.xml:1: parser error : CData section
> not finished
> When virtual communication isn't effective, people in
> /xxxxx/website_code/php/xmlInspector.php on line 26
> [05-Nov-2012 17:55:01 Europe/London] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_file():
> concern for others' well being</li>^A in
> /xxxxxx/website_code/php/xmlInspector.php on line 26
> [05-Nov-2012 17:55:01 Europe/London] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_file():
>                                    ^ in
> /xxxxxx/website_code/php/xmlInspector.php on line 26
> [05-Nov-2012 17:55:01 Europe/London] PHP Warning:  simplexml_load_file():
> /xxxxxxx/USER-FILES/155-elsjbh-Nottingham/template.xml:1: parser error :
> PCDATA invalid Char value 1 in /xxxxxx/website_code/php/xmlInspector.php on
> line 26
>
>
> You should see the ^A which is the invalid character.
>
> If I fix the newlines in the file (either data.xml or template.xml) and
> then run xmllint --format on it, I get the following :
>
> foo.xml:832: parser error : CData section not finished
> When virtual communication isn't effective, people
> concern for others' well being</li>
>                                    ^
> foo.xml:832: parser error : PCDATA invalid Char value 1
> concern for others' well being</li>
>                                    ^
> foo.xml:846: parser error : Sequence ']]>' not allowed in content
> Byrne, M. and Associates (2000) <i>Virtual Teams, Virtual
> Management.</i>]]></te
>                                                                          ^
> foo.xml:846: parser error : internal error
> Byrne, M. and Associates (2000) <i>Virtual Teams, Virtual
> Management.</i>]]></te
>                                                                          ^
> foo.xml:846: parser error : Extra content at the end of the document
> Byrne, M. and Associates (2000) <i>Virtual Teams, Virtual
> Management.</i>]]></te
>
>
> And upon viewing the file I see :
>
> Three components of a well-functioning virtual team are:
> <li>competence
> integrity
> concern for others' well being</li>^A
> …..
>
>
> I'm not sure what character the ^A is - but it's obviously causing
> problems. If I delete it, and save data.xml it then passes xmllint and the
> LO can be exported and everything works fine.
>
>
> However, somehow the character is re-appearing over time, as the problem
> has come back.
>
> From the export code, I can see data.xml is copied to template.xml; but is
> something used to create data.xml?
> How is this ^A character returning? Is it possible the end user is pasting
> something into the XOT editor which contains the strange character?
>
>
> (I assume somewhere some code isn't creating the XML document using a
> library, and is instead concatenating strings … hence the character isn't
> escaped/encoded correctly?)
>
> Thanks
> David.
>
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