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

[Julian Tenney]

I asked if I could share the files, but not had a response: I'm sure it's OK, but I need to check,

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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 David Goodwin
Sent: 12 May 2014 14:35
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: FW: Further Xerte Data Loss

Can you attach / share the data.xml file somehow?

I know of a PHP library which is quite good at cleaning up such stuff ....

David.


On 12/05/14 13:23, Julian Tenney wrote:
> This looks suspicious: that's not escaping, right? That looks to me 
> like errant characters creeping in from somewhere? Paste from word, etc?
>
> -----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-in
> valid-character-error
>
> https://chrismckee.co.uk/saving-user-content-to-xml-error-contains-non
> e-utf-8-content-aka-how-to-remove-invalid-characters-in-utf-8/
>
> David.
>
>  >
>
>  > -----Original Message-----
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>  > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
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>  > [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of 
> David
>
>  > Goodwin
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>  > 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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