Re: Can't import exported XML
Re: Can't import exported XML
- Subject: Re: Can't import exported XML
- From: Gregory Clarke <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:49:47 -0700
I assume this person on FCP 6.x ?
There were some cases where illegal characters could get into the
XML output causing it to not reimport. So far as I am aware these
issues were fixed in FCP 7.
In some cases the offending characters are control characters. If
you are familiar with the command line, the easiest way to find this
is with an old-fashioned editor like 'vi'. (Most GUI editors tend
to be entirely too helpful and do not display such characters at all.)
An alternative is to use another command line tool 'xmllint' and see
if it complains about anything.
-eryk
Hi List,
I've got a customer with a strange situation. He exports an XML
file of his sequence, but the XML won't reimport back into FCP: you
get the critical error and general error dialogs.
Could this be caused by a corrupt sequence or a problematic clip in
the sequence?
Greg.
Eryk, you are exactly right. The problem was FCP was exporting some
bad characters in the lognote field that weren't escaped. Text Edit
didn't show the characters, but TextMate did.
For fellow XMLers, here's a tip I learned last week. If you open an
XML file in Firefox or Camino, it will tell you if it's valid and show
you exactly where the problem is. It's like having your own validator.
The .dtd file would have also found the problem for me.
Greg
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