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

[Pat L (pgogy)]

i thought there was a valid XML test before saving?


On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

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