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

[David Goodwin]

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.


On 12/05/14 12:35, Julian Tenney wrote:
> They are about things like < > “, but I would have thought ‘ would be OK?
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave
> Burnett
> *Sent:* 12 May 2014 12:34
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss
>
> Not positive, but I thought attributes were picky.
>
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> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:20:39 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss
>
> Apostrophes should be OK in either CDATA or in an xml attribute, yes?
>
> *From:*xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
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> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Dave
> Burnett
> *Sent:* 12 May 2014 12:15
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss
>
>>after I included a further sub-menu connector
>
> I take it the connectors have names?
>
> Wonder if apostrophes are escaped.
>
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> From: Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 12:08:26 +0100
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] FW: Further Xerte Data Loss
>
> I guys, I need to get to the bottom of this issue: I have a fairly
> advanced user who has been periodically losing data: the email below
> explains the problem. A couple of weeks ago it happened and we lost 40
> slides, now it has happened again. In the file I looked at, the broken
> file ended with the characters
>
> <cMen
>
> i.e. an incomplete tag, which I believe should be <cMenuConnector
> params=”etc”>
>
> Does this ring any bells with anyone? Anyone experienced it before
> elsewhere? I don’t think the menu connectors are used much, which is why
> we haven’t come across it before?
>
> I have a feeling it is something to do with escaping characters as data
> is being saved, or as it is being read back to the editor. Anyone have
> any other bright ideas how we can troubleshoot it? See below…
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Julian
>
> I've experienced further data loss again this morning, this time on a
> completely different Xerte project
> (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/toolkits/play_10189).
>
> I initially produced this resource using the Flash Xerte engine, but the
> academic I'm working with was keen for me to transfer the data over into
> HTML5. I made a direct duplicate copy of the Flash project, ticked the
> HTML5 engine and then set about reproducing the slides - no problem.
>
> Everything was absolutely fine (after working on the project for most of
> Friday) until around 10:30am this morning, when I lost around 10-15
> slides (including my review quiz with 20 MCQs). I'm now beginning to
> strongly suspect that the Xerte Menu Connector templates might be having
> something to do with this persistent problem?
>
> I have been using multiple connector menus in both my Grasslands and
> Meat Science packages. In both I have a dominant 'Main Menu' at the
> start, which then 'connects' via tabs to several sub-menus (of the same
> Connector template type) dotted throughout the resource. In each of the
> sub-menus I link back to the Main Menu.
>
> My last actions before the slides were lost today, happened after I
> included a further sub-menu connector (at around slide 70) and then
> linked this to this from the 'Main Menu' (slide 2) via the drop-down
> selector menu. I then published the changes.
>
> With that being said, I've attempted to recreate the problem using a
> dummy file, but I have so far failed to do it.
>
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