[Xerte] Re: export function failure in XOT, no zip generated

[Pat Lockley]

i've come across it before doing something and I think it might be
fixable passing a flag to simpleXML

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Paul Swanson
<Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com> wrote:
> I think it would need to be a preg_replace. Might be difficult to come up with a regex that didn't replace legitimate entities.
>
> Laurent, glad it's working for you.
>
> Paul Swanson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:26 PM
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: export function failure in XOT, no zip generated
>
> Am not sure if we shouldn't string replace on the xml string?
>
> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Paul Swanson
> <Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com> wrote:
>> The HTML entity for the & character is & or & -- you might try either of those. Sometimes it's just easier to use ' and '.
>>
>> Paul Swanson
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Laurent MATHIEU
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 8:59 AM
>> To: Xerte discussion list
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: export function failure in XOT, no zip generated
>>
>> Hi Pat,
>>
>> Thanks, this indeed helped in shedding some light on the error.
>> I have made a few more tests and it seems that the export function doesn't like the '&' character. If you have such character in your XOT project's content, the export may fails with this kind of error:
>>
>> Warning: simplexml_load_file(): file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/xertetoolkits/USER-FILES/5-guest2-Nottingham/template.xml:1: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';' in C:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\website_code\php\xmlInspector.php on line 26
>>
>> Warning: simplexml_load_file(): <li> Stratégiques : <i>ERP, R&D, CRM, …</i></li> in C:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\website_code\php\xmlInspector.php on line 26
>>
>> Warning: simplexml_load_file(): ^ in C:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\website_code\php\xmlInspector.php on line 26
>>
>> Fatal error: Call to a member function xpath() on a non-object in C:\xampp\htdocs\xertetoolkits\website_code\php\xmlInspector.php on line 28
>>
>>
>> In the above example, I used the term "R&D". Any solution to avoid this symptom when using the character in question?
>>
>> Much appreciate your help on this.
>>
>> Thanks and regards,
>> /L
>>
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