it's a shot in the dark but you might check the file properties that witango is setting aka "read only flag" etc. maybe something in there is throwing it off?
But hey, so you are saying if you remove almost all the data in the file it still breaks, but if you were to type out the same thing in notepad it sitll works? That is so bizzarre. Hey here's something else that might be the problem actually... in some systems the end of a line in a file is marked by a \n (ascii character code 10) and in other systems the end of a line is marked by \r\n (ascii characters 13,10), but depending on your text viewer those may appear the same. when you make the file yourself it may be that your file is made one way and tango is making it another way, while the flash app expects it a certain way. Another thing is maybe in your file you are using tabs vs spaces and tango is doing the reverse (or vice versa) and the flash app is expecting a specific kind of white space? Also here's a link that might help you, it's made to validate XML files. You could try to toss your hand made file in there and the one tango makes and see if it reports any differences http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv On Dec 5, 2007 11:42 PM, Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may not be invisible characters, but character encoding. Witango > only speaks IS0 and you may need to add that xml header to the xml > file, so the flash reads it properly. Without the iso header, it > probably defaults to thinking its UTF-8. > > -- > > Robert Garcia > President - BigHead Technology > VP Application Development - eventpix.com > 13653 West Park Dr > Magalia, Ca 95954 > ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ > > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Noel wrote: > > > Thanx, Alan. I have tried removing individual portions, half, > > almost all, > > almost none, etc. It doesn't seem to make a difference. It seems > > that > > anytime Tango writes the file, it breaks the flash app. Now, I've > > never > > tried windiff, so I might try that. I also can't seem to find an > > app that > > will show ALL of the hidden characters in a file. I've opened the > > file in > > Textpad, Ultraedit, even DOS Edit and don't get anything more than > > spaces, > > tabs and LF/Ps. > > > > It's a making me crazy! > > > >> One thing to try would be to look at the actual xmlfile that > >> tango creates and compare with what you have using a hex > >> editor (to see if there are invisible characters!) or > >> something like "windiff" which would show you any difference > >> in yours vs. tangos. > >> > >> If you find that there are no hidden characters and if you > >> re-type the xml by hand and it doesnt work in your flash app, > >> what you might try doing is removing half of the data (making > >> sure it's still well formed > >> xml!) and then seeing if that works. If it does work, you > >> know the problem is in the half you removed. If it doesn't > >> work, you know the problem is in the remaining half. > >> > >> Whichever half is the problem, try removing half of that and > >> trinse and repeat, cutting the problem in half as many times > >> as it takes before you find what is making the flash explode. > >> > >> HTH! > >> Alan > >> > >> On Dec 5, 2007 6:53 PM, Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I'm using Tango (yeah, I'm still on Tango 2000) to write an xml for > >>> for a Flash app that I use. > >>> > >>> Problem is, no matter what I've tried, the xml file doesn't work in > >>> the Flash app the same as if I open something like Notepad and just > >>> type in the same data. My suspicion is that I'm either including > >>> something I shouldn't by using METAHTML encoding, or Tango > >> is for some > >>> reason inserting invisible characters in the xml file that > >> I am simply > >>> unable to see. I have tried to resolve this for several > >> hours (I have > >>> even resorted to using <@CHAR CODE="10"> in place of hard returns > >>> while I'm building the data to be written to the file, but > >> all to no avail. > >>> > >>> If anybody has any ideas as to what might be happening, I'd sure > >>> appreciate hearing about it. > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> ______________________________________________________________________ > >>> __ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > >> http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > >>> > >>> > >> ______________________________________________________________ > >> __________ > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > >> > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
