site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com Hi Helena, overall your description is accurate, that's what I want to do. No, I am not using the text field of an effect. Thanks, Rainer Hi Rainer, OR Cheers, Helena On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Rainer Standke wrote: I am using TextEdit to look at the exported XML. Thanks, Rainer _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/hju%40apple.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Pro-apps-dev mailing list (Pro-apps-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/pro-apps-dev/site_archiver%40lists.ap... 3. The place that I put '<![CDATA[Rainer]]>' was in a sequence at clipitem/filter/effect/privatestate. 6. And yes, the data that I get back in step 6 is indeed gobledygook. I would have expected to get '<![CDATA[Rainer]]>', but I am getting '<! [CDATA[M!).%2@@@@@@H@@@@@@@A@@@K@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@R/4!4)/.@@@@@ %@@@@@@@@]]>'. On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:39 , Helena Ju wrote: I'm confused by the steps to get to this situation. I also recommend using BBEdit if you want to see the XML properly. I'll try to state what I think you're trying to do and you can let me know if I've got it, alright? 1. make some FCP project 2. export XML for that project in FCP 3. take that XML and modify it by putting a CDATA scope where? 4. import that modified XML file into FCP 5. export XML from the modified or new project where you imported the XML in step 4 6. note that the XML you get in step 5 is different than the one you created in step 3 because the CData changed? perhaps you're using a text field of some effect? And you put in some text "Rainer" and it is output from the XML as CDATA and it looks like gobledygook? I was looking for a way to incorporate text into an XML to be imported into FCP, and to be retrieved later on from an exported XML, after some more editing had been done. I explored privatestate as place to put that at, and I am running into a problem: The data that I write into the XML, like: <! [CDATA[Rainer]]>, comes back quite different, like this: <! [CDATA[M!).%2@@@@@@H@@@@@@@A@@@K@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@R/4!4)/.@@@@@ %@@@@@@@@]]>. So, I'm wondering if there is some parsing going on, or if it's caused by some text encoding issue. Could anyone shed some light, please? This email sent to hju@apple.com This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com