Failed to parse XML

Tomaz Canabrava tcanabrava at kde.org
Mon Feb 20 00:57:24 PST 2017


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 7:37 AM, Pablo Wolter <pwolter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Mika, that solved it. I may have typed some weird characters
> close by like " " ", " ' ", ">", "." or "?" instead of "/". Or I
> really don't know what happened.
>
> Works now. Thanks!
>

That's a bug - We should be able to handle that (or at least convert to
UTF-8)


>
> Pablo.
>
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 10:24 PM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > A quick fix: delete the contents of the notes on line 39 (USA /
> > Mukilteo / State Park, site uuid 2e3add63). That contains some
> > encoding we do not understand. Input files should be UTF-8 for them to
> > work properly.
> >
> > miika
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> You can send it to me and Dirk directly. It is OK to send it to the
> >> mailing list also, but I do not remember what the size limit for the
> >> mailing list is.
> >>
> >> miika
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Pablo Wolter <pwolter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I tried to run it with the "-v -v" but I guess that works on Linux?
> >>> I'm on Mac and nothing happens when trying them. Do I send you my XML
> >>> file to you or it is ok to send to the list? It's a ~4 Mb file.
> >>>
> >>> Pablo.
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Dirk Hohndel <dirk at hohndel.org>
> wrote:
> >>>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 09:23:41PM +0000, Pablo Wolter wrote:
> >>>>> Today I tried to download a bunch of dives from my dive computer.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I opened Subsurface and got a red error frame at the bottom saying it
> >>>>> failed parsing my local XML  file.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All my dives are gone. The application is empty.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I remember a while ago I saw an email exchange about something like
> this
> >>>>> due a change on the internal dives storage but can't find the emails.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Do you remember how to solve this? Yes. I have not dived in a while
> .....
> >>>>
> >>>> First thing to do... copy the XML file and the .bak file of the same
> name
> >>>> to a different directory... just to be on the safe side.
> >>>>
> >>>> Then... either run subsurface -v -v from the command line to see if
> you
> >>>> can make sense of what's going on, or send the XML file to some of us
> so
> >>>> we can take a look. Usual suspects would be Linus, Miika, and myself.
> I'm
> >>>> sure between the three of us we can figure out what's going on.
> >>>>
> >>>> For the record. We have every intention to have this NEVER happen.
> >>>> Subsurface is supposed to ALWAYS be able to read older files. So I'd
> love
> >>>> to figure out what's wrong, fix it, create a test for it... and then
> all
> >>>> of that will make it into 4.6.3 :-)
> >>>>
> >>>> (unless of course it's a random file corruption - we've seen those as
> well)
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks
> >>>>
> >>>> /D
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