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

[Julian Tenney]

Implying invalid chars in the xml somehow?

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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 Smith, John
Sent: 12 May 2014 13:00
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

We don't actually try to build the XML which may be the issue. We just take the stream from Flash and write to the disk. Either Flash is sending truncated data (and the wrong size to match) or it is being truncated when received by save.php...

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From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David Goodwin [david at palepurple.co.uk]
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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