Thanx, guys, I appreciate it. As usual, it ended up being a very small goofy thing. Can you believe that rendering a time as 1:00 instead of 01:00 would set off an entire flash element? Who would've thought...
> it's a shot in the dark but you might check the file > properties that witango is setting aka "read only flag" etc. > maybe something in there is throwing it off? > > But hey, so you are saying if you remove almost all the data > in the file it still breaks, but if you were to type out the > same thing in notepad it sitll works? That is so bizzarre. > > Hey here's something else that might be the problem actually... > > in some systems the end of a line in a file is marked by a \n > (ascii character code 10) and in other systems the end of a > line is marked by \r\n (ascii characters 13,10), but > depending on your text viewer those may appear the same. > > when you make the file yourself it may be that your file is > made one way and tango is making it another way, while the > flash app expects it a certain way. > > Another thing is maybe in your file you are using tabs vs > spaces and tango is doing the reverse (or vice versa) and the > flash app is expecting a specific kind of white space? > > Also here's a link that might help you, it's made to validate > XML files. You could try to toss your hand made file in > there and the one tango makes and see if it reports any differences > > http://www.w3.org/2001/03/webdata/xsv > > > On Dec 5, 2007 11:42 PM, Robert Garcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It may not be invisible characters, but character encoding. Witango > > only speaks IS0 and you may need to add that xml header to the xml > > file, so the flash reads it properly. Without the iso header, it > > probably defaults to thinking its UTF-8. > > > > -- > > > > Robert Garcia > > President - BigHead Technology > > VP Application Development - eventpix.com > > 13653 West Park Dr > > Magalia, Ca 95954 > > ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bighead.net/ - http://eventpix.com/ > > > > > > On Dec 5, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Noel wrote: > > > > > Thanx, Alan. I have tried removing individual portions, half, > > > almost all, almost none, etc. It doesn't seem to make a > difference. > > > It seems that anytime Tango writes the file, it breaks the flash > > > app. Now, I've never tried windiff, so I might try that. I also > > > can't seem to find an app that will show ALL of the hidden > > > characters in a file. I've opened the file in Textpad, > Ultraedit, > > > even DOS Edit and don't get anything more than spaces, tabs and > > > LF/Ps. > > > > > > It's a making me crazy! > > > > > >> One thing to try would be to look at the actual xmlfile > that tango > > >> creates and compare with what you have using a hex > editor (to see > > >> if there are invisible characters!) or something like "windiff" > > >> which would show you any difference in yours vs. tangos. > > >> > > >> If you find that there are no hidden characters and if > you re-type > > >> the xml by hand and it doesnt work in your flash app, what you > > >> might try doing is removing half of the data (making sure it's > > >> still well formed > > >> xml!) and then seeing if that works. If it does work, > you know the > > >> problem is in the half you removed. If it doesn't work, > you know > > >> the problem is in the remaining half. > > >> > > >> Whichever half is the problem, try removing half of that > and trinse > > >> and repeat, cutting the problem in half as many times as > it takes > > >> before you find what is making the flash explode. > > >> > > >> HTH! > > >> Alan > > >> > > >> On Dec 5, 2007 6:53 PM, Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> I'm using Tango (yeah, I'm still on Tango 2000) to write an xml > > >>> for for a Flash app that I use. > > >>> > > >>> Problem is, no matter what I've tried, the xml file > doesn't work > > >>> in the Flash app the same as if I open something like > Notepad and > > >>> just type in the same data. My suspicion is that I'm either > > >>> including something I shouldn't by using METAHTML encoding, or > > >>> Tango > > >> is for some > > >>> reason inserting invisible characters in the xml file that > > >> I am simply > > >>> unable to see. I have tried to resolve this for several > > >> hours (I have > > >>> even resorted to using <@CHAR CODE="10"> in place of > hard returns > > >>> while I'm building the data to be written to the file, but > > >> all to no avail. > > >>> > > >>> If anybody has any ideas as to what might be happening, > I'd sure > > >>> appreciate hearing about it. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > ___________________________________________________________________ > > >> ___ > > >>> __ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > > >> http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > >>> > > >>> > > >> ______________________________________________________________ > > >> __________ > > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > >> > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > > ____ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to > > > http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > __ > > > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > __________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
