[Eric] Character data not allowed outside root element

Detlev Offenbach detlev at die-offenbachs.de
Mon Sep 11 19:05:30 BST 2006


Hi,

that is a known bug of pyxml. Please see the file README-PyXML.txt for patch 
instructions.

Detlev

On Friday 08 September 2006 13:04, François Wautier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was happily using Eric 3.8.2 when I decided that instead of coding I
> would rather update to Eric 3.9.0.
>
> Since I use a Gentoo distribution and there were no "ebuild" for that
> version of eric, I setup my own (quite simple actually) and pronounced the
> required incantations
>
> Suffice to say the install went alright and that in the process pyxml was
> updated to 0.8.4
>
> I started eric and tried to load a project..
>
> I got
>
> ====================
> Fatal Error
> /some/path/to/a/project//Project.e3p
> Line: 75, Column: 3
> Character data not allowed outside root element
> ====================
>
> Now... Line 75 happens to be the very last line of the .e3p file containing
> the closing tag "</Project>"
>
> I googled around but the few references I found do  not seem to exactly fit
> the problem I have.
>
> I also noticed that can I create a project but can't add a file/directory
> to it. There is no error message, but the file/directory seems simply
> ignored
>
> Has anyone encountered this problem... Better has anyone solved it? Are
> there other files to update ? (API files for example?)
>
> Cheers,
> 	François
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