I have a ruby script that I wrote that handles the authentication and does a post of the raw xml. When I do this, Google gives me a more or less helpful response in cases where there is a problem.
I think though, that problem isn't with Google, but somewhere in your tool chain. When I look at the xml file that you posted, I see the same errors as you do. If I save the file to my desktop, and still see the error, and the unknown unicode character in Strandmøllen. If I open that file in my text editor and save it as UTF-8, the character appears correctly. Originally the editor thinks that the file is Latin-1, although I'm not sure that is helpful. You have shown two files: http://www.planyourdive.com/google_api_problem.txtand http://www.planyourdive.com/google_api_problem.xml. The first displays correctly, the second doesn't. What's the difference? Ray On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:24 AM, BlackToe <[email protected]>wrote: > > What are you using to post the request to Google API? I'm using > the .NET HttpWebRequest and writing the XML content using a > StreamWriter. I've even tried specifying UTF-8 encoding when writing > the content, with no luck. I've logged my XML to a file, and the "ø" > character appears correctly in the log. > > Interestingly, the XML parser in IE does not consider my XML valid, > reporting the "ø" an invalid character (open > http://www.planyourdive.com/google_api_problem.xml > in IE to see). Firefox will display it, but renders the "ø" as an > unknown character. > > My guess is that something is munging the "ø" between me and Google, > such that Google considers the XML invalid, but I can't figure out > what would be doing that. Is there any way to see what Google > received on their end? > > On Feb 21, 9:50 pm, Ray Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, and the "ø" character appears correctly in the first event, but in > the > > second it appears as it did in your posting, as an unknown unicode > > character. > > Ray > > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Ray Baxter <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I created an event using your xml. Here it is: > > > > >http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=Y24xbmhtbjJmNTRjbXBmMnBncjhu. > .. > > > > > here's a tiny urlhttp://tinyurl.com/c9lrwn > > > > > You see that the "ø" character appears without problem. I'm not > otherwise > > > doing anything special. > > > > > By the way, I took the data from your previous post, changed the date > to > > > the 22nd so we could see what was happening, and removed some line > breaks > > > and stray html and was also able to create an event: > > > > >http://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=ZnMxdGRldmdpZmRwYWhhdmRqYmQw. > .. > > > > > Hope that helps. > > > > > Ray > > > > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:39 PM, BlackToe < > [email protected] > > > > wrote: > > > > >> You bet. I posted an XML file at > > >>http://www.planyourdive.com/google_api_problem.txt. > > > > >> On Feb 20, 6:38 pm, Trevor Johns <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:51 AM, BlackToe > > > > >> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >> > > It seems like my posts take forever to show up on this thread. > > >> > > Anyway... > > > > >> > That's because I have to moderate everything manually. This group > > >> > would get a lot of spam otherwise. :( > > > > >> > > I added an XML declaration with UTF-8 encoding, and still got the > same > > >> > > problem. Here's the XML (with some irrelevant info removed). The > > >> > > offending character is the "o" with a slash through it in > > >> > > "Strandmollen". > > > > >> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > > >> > > <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; xmlns:gd="http:// > > >> > > schemas.google.com/g/2005"> > > >> > > <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind"; > > >> > > term="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#event"; /> > > >> > > <title type="text">Strandm llen</title> > > >> > > <content type="html">If you make changes to this event, > > >> > > PlanYourDive.com will no longer be able to sync it.</p></ > > >> > > content> > > >> > > <gd:transparency value="http://schemas.google.com/g/ > > >> > > 2005#event.opaque" /> > > >> > > <gd:eventStatus value="http://schemas.google.com/g/ > > >> > > 2005#event.confirmed" /> > > >> > > <gd:where valueString="Strandm llen" /> > > >> > > <gd:when startTime="2009-02-23T20:00:00.000Z" > > >> > > endTime="2009-02-23T20:00:00.000Z" /> > > >> > > </entry> > > > > >> > Those characters are getting munged by either SMTP or Google Groups. > > >> > Would you try posting that information in a .txt file hosted > somewhere > > >> > off-list (then posting the URL) so I can try to reproduce this on my > > >> > end? > > > > >> > -- > > >> > Trevor Johns > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
