[OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi List: Was wondering if any XML savvy folks out there might know how to track down/correct a formatting error (?) in an XML file. My brother is using some proprietary software to translate text in XML documents into languages with diacritical characters. The output produced by the software

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hi Scott I'm no XML expert but tried your sample file with this XML Validator - http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/ It complained about an HTML escape sequence aacute; As the XML file is UTF-8 encoded it shouldn't be necessary to use HMTL escapes. I've attached the actual error message.

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Scott, Did your brother test what occurs in applying the rev command : put uniEncode(fileURL,UTF8) into fileURL to the text file before sending it to the proprietary software used to output the XML file? Best Regards, P. Le 12 oct. 09 à 09:19, Scott Rossi a écrit : Hi List: Was

Re: [OT] Headless COMPAQ P3

2009-10-12 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Neat, very neat. I have a couple of old compaqs around, and will have a go on one. Thanks. Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: Luckily I found this: http://www.snippety.org/articles/2008/01/14/headless-compaq-desktop-boot-without-a-keyboard-attached/ -- View this message in context:

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Cragg
Scott I tried to open it with something (not Rev) that parses XML and get the following error: 'The entity aacute was referenced, but not declared.' Entities are different between html and xml, and XML only supports a few as standard. Others have to be declared. (From my crusty memory. )

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Pierre Sahores wrote: Did your brother test what occurs in applying the rev command : put uniEncode(fileURL,UTF8) into fileURL to the text file before sending it to the proprietary software used to output the XML file? Hello Pierre: I don't think the above will help -- as far

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Peter W A Wood wrote: I'm no XML expert but tried your sample file with this XML Validator - http://www.validome.org/xml/validate/ It complained about an HTML escape sequence aacute; As the XML file is UTF-8 encoded it shouldn't be necessary to use HMTL escapes. Thanks for

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Dave Cragg wrote: I tried to open it with something (not Rev) that parses XML and get the following error: 'The entity aacute was referenced, but not declared.' Entities are different between html and xml, and XML only supports a few as standard. Others have to be declared.

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hi Scott On 12 Oct 2009, at 16:24, Scott Rossi wrote: Thanks for looking Peter. It seems possible to discern the error even just using a Web browser, but how to correct it? By changing all the HTML escapes to their UTF-8 Equivalent which is will be a little laborious and beyond my

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Cragg
On 12 Oct 2009, at 09:30, Scott Rossi wrote: (declare an entity = no clue). That's because you are still sane. No promises here, but if you insert the following at the top of the document, just after the ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 standalone=yes? part, it seems to display in

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error? (correction)

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Cragg
Sorry, my last posting contained some errors. (Copied from wrong file.) I think this is correct: !DOCTYPE document [ !ENTITY aacute #x00E1; !ENTITY Aacute #x00C1; !ENTITY acirc #x00E2; !ENTITY Acirc #x00C2; !ENTITY agrave #x00E0; !ENTITY Agrave #x00C0; !ENTITY aring #x00E5;

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hi Scott Thanks for looking Peter. It seems possible to discern the error even just using a Web browser, but how to correct it? By referring to a couple of tutorials and the dictionary, I managed to cobble together this simple skeleton of how to correct the file using RunRev. I'm sure

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Smith
Inserting Dave's DOCTYPE declarations (2nd version) gets the file a clean bill of health from xml nanny (http://www.versiontracker.com/ dyn/moreinfo/macosx/27761). Best, Mark Smith ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Colin Holgate
The others have answered the main question (with acute solution, you might say...), but something that seems odd is that every single node has a namespace. I've never seen that done before. Maybe the schema at http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006 is supposed to take

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Scott Rossi
No promises here, but if you insert the following at the top of the document, just after the ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8 standalone=yes? part, it seems to display in Firefox OK. Adding the lookup table does indeed appear to make the XML display properly. I've passed the info along to my

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Dave Cragg
On 12 Oct 2009, at 14:38, Colin Holgate wrote: The others have answered the main question (with acute solution, you might say...), but something that seems odd is that every single node has a namespace. I've never seen that done before. Maybe the schema at

Re: Opening a GLX stack in IDE

2009-10-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Martin Koob wrote: The basic step I was missing was to click the 'Click me to launch application' in the launcher.rev stack At first glance I thought this was to start running the application, not for working on it in the IDE. So I did not click it which lead to

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Monday, October 12, 2009, 1:22:56 AM, you wrote: Is this Microsoft's open xml format by the way? Yep. That it is. The bloat is MS Word namespace tags on every element. I'd be embarrassed to write something like w:p w:rsidR=00E52FAC w:rsidRPr=002C0BD1 w:rsidRDefault=00E52FAC

Re: [OT] Figuring Out XML Error?

2009-10-12 Thread stephen barncard
Open XML? - oxymoron MS has seemingly done the same thing for XML what they did for SQL, html and javascript de-standardize it 'just enough' to make interchange more difficult without their blessing. - Stephen Barncard San Francisco

Quartam Reports questions

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Szasz
I have run into some problem using groups and checkboxes in Quartam Reports. I could not any solutions in Quartam Reports documentation. I also posted my questions at the Quartam Community web site but have received no responses to my questions. I have a card with 18 checkboxes, which represent

[on-rev] uniEncode outputting accentuated characters from an on-rev textFile

2009-10-12 Thread Robert Maniquant
Could somebody confirm what the state is regarding on-rev and accentuated non ascii characters that we use in french??? -- I am building a CMS server on my on-rev account. -- At some point, The CMS loads a simple text file with html tags into variable vtext, and output vText on screen. -- this

Re: [on-rev] uniEncode outputting accentuated characters from an on-rev textFile

2009-10-12 Thread Robert Maniquant
A complement to myself and all : 1) of course if I use the html iso (eacute; ) instead of é, all works fine. 2) in the end i will edit files from an off line stack, on my desktop. So i'll be able to control more precisely what is put into the file on the server. Still i hope to get precisions

[FR][EN]Re: [on-rev] uniEncode outputting accentuated characters from an on-rev textFile

2009-10-12 Thread Dom
Robert Maniquant r...@free.fr wrote: Could somebody confirm what the state is regarding on-rev and accentuated non ascii characters that we use in french??? Héhé... jette donc un coup d'œil à mon message, intitulé : [revweb] Accented chars and file charset en bref, c'est bien de déclarer

Re: [FR][EN]Re: [on-rev] uniEncode outputting accentuated characters from an on-rev textFile

2009-10-12 Thread Robert Maniquant
Yes ! Using textWrangler to edit, save file and then upload it to the server (taking care to choose uTF8 no bom at botom of window) DOES work, great. So this will be the turnaround! thanks! SO it seems to be a narrowed problem to the on-rev IDE. Ouf! (I suspect scotland is not so much in

Re: Quartam Reports questions

2009-10-12 Thread Charles Szasz
Charles Szasz wrote: I have run into solve my problems regarding groups and checkboxes in Quartam Reports. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Quartam-Reports-questions-tp25860024p25864881.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [FR][EN]Re: [on-rev] uniEncode outputting accentuated characters from an on-rev textFile

2009-10-12 Thread Dom
Robert Maniquant r...@free.fr wrote: L'environnement IDE on-rev semble gérer le texte en ascii pur et dur! non, il gère le charset selon la plateforme ! sans doute Windows-1252 sur PC, Mac OS Roman sur Mac, usw... c'est vrai que tant que c'est en ASCII pur et dur, tout passe -- le problème