WeBuilder Beta 10.0.0.108
Windows XP SP2
I'm trying to open an xml file that's only 676 KB. The program just hangs. I tried dragging and dropping the file into WeBuilder while running. I also tried to open the file by Right Click > Open With >WeBuilder. I changed the file extension to .txt, but this still hangs.
Opening XML File Hangs WeBuilder 2010 Beta
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Re: Opening XML File Hangs WeBuilder 2010 Beta
Could it be that this file contains all its data on a single line of text or something like that? WeBuilder can not coupe with lines of length that is measurable in tens of more than few thousand characters per line.
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Re: Opening XML File Hangs WeBuilder 2010 Beta
Turns out that is what's happening. Thre are several areas in the xml file where there are long lines.
If WeBuilder can edit such files, that would be nice; however, if not, then it really should give a graceful error message instead of hanging the program.
If WeBuilder can edit such files, that would be nice; however, if not, then it really should give a graceful error message instead of hanging the program.
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Re: Opening XML File Hangs WeBuilder 2010 Beta
I'll see if we can create error/warning for this. Thanks!
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davenz
Re: Opening XML File Hangs WeBuilder 2010 Beta
I reported this over a year ago with html files and it still occurs in files with many many lines of code all in one tag. It is annoying but not a show-stopper for me.
Dave.
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Here's a Work-Around to Edit XML Files in WeBuilder
Here's something I found, thanks to Will (syrupcore), that may help resolve this issue... http://forums.blumentals.net/viewtopic. ... 493#p14493
Convert Long Line of XML Text to Multi-Line:
[ jack on October 3, 2007 12:13 PM ] use pspad freeware editor to conver one line of xml and reformat it. this tool will make it multi line.
[ bob on February 4, 2008 12:00 PM ] check the xml tidy extension on beyond compare (available from the beyond compare site).
It uses the xml tidy tool to normalise and indent xml in a standard way, so you can compare two files that are laid out in different ways
( My Comment: This should allow WeBuilder to load these files! )