Error restoring backup ...

Error restoring backup ...

by Hamilton Lima -
Number of replies: 4
Hi,
I'm usiing moodle 1.3.3
and having the following error restoring backups:
XML error: not well-formed (invalid token) at line 4923

removing the the following line from the xml file, makes the restore works
but I didn't find waht is wrong with that line....sad

Anybody can take a look on this line, the xml piece is attached
the 4923 line is the next line to ALLTEXT tag
Thanks

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Re: Error restoring backup ...

by Hamilton Lima -
I found at column 2979 one char 08 ... probably generated when I try to enter the folder address of one program (the data is about mysql setup)
using c: (back-slash) mysql (back-slash) bin
today I'm using & # 92 ; to put back slashes ...
Is this a bug of the HTML editor ?

Thanks

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Re: Error restoring backup ...

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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Hi Hamilton,

some similar issues have been posted here in the past:

http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=8304

The root cause of them was the inclusion of some "strange" chars in different parts of the course. Such chars (or combination of them) can be converted to UTF-8 correctly by the backup so they cannot be converted from UTF-8 by the restore.

So, I think that you'll have to edit that text and avoid such chars...

Ciao smile
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Re: Error restoring backup ...

by Hamilton Lima -
Eloy, thanks for the response,
But I believe that the point is not exactly avoid the characters ...

I can go in the HTML source and edit the char that I need, but I'm worry about some teachers that don't know html, and need for example to put in the doc the path of some file,

take a look at this example :

1. the user input
input.gif

2. the result on the browser
show.gif

3. editing the html
edit.gif

As you can see the back slashes went away ... is this a html editor problem, or I 'm doing something wrong ?

regards

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Re: Error restoring backup ...

by Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) -
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Hi Hamilton,

sorry but I didn't see your 2nd post before answering you. I've make your test and everything seems to work fine in my server/browser/DB/OS combination!!

Perhaps, if you send here more details about your environment, somebody could test it.

Anyway, now that I understand (I hope wink) your problem, I think that it has nothing to do with the backup/restore process (sure that it cannot convert that "negative bullet" char).

Now we've to analyse why your HTML editor is doing that!!

Ciao smile
Attachment test.png
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