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

Mon May 12 12:38:16 BST 2014

It would be.

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 12:38
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

If the attribute is enclosed in double quotes.

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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 12:35:05 +0100
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss
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> [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<mailto:xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
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<mailto: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 12:15
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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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