Re: POI XML validator for testing

Looks like this is already an XML requirement.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#syntax

On Jan 6, 2012, at 3:06 PM, Raj Singh wrote:

> Or use & in your URIs instead of & 
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> On Jan 6, at 2:38 PM, Raj Singh wrote:
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>> Odd. I don't know what's wrong. <pois href="http://www.w3.org?a=1&b=2"> is legal XML, and that's what the program receives, so this will take awhile to debug. Until then, don't use & in testing!
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>> On Jan 6, at 12:54 PM, Alex Hill wrote:
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>>> Looks like you validator is tripping up on ampersand separated query parameters:
>>> <pois href="http://www.w3.org?a=1&b=2">
>>> </pois>
>>> Gives the following:
>>> Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: Entity: line 1: parser error : EntityRef: expecting ';' in /home/rajsingh/public_html/poiwg/poixmlvalidator.php on line 24
>>> 
>>> Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: <pois href="http://www.w3.org?a=1&b=2"> in /home/rajsingh/public_html/poiwg/poixmlvalidator.php on line 24
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>>> Warning: simplexml_load_string() [function.simplexml-load-string]: ^ in /home/rajsingh/public_html/poiwg/poixmlvalidator.php on line 24
>>> 
>>> Fatal error: Call to a member function getName() on a non-object in /home/rajsingh/public_html/poiwg/poixmlvalidator.php on line 338
>>> 
>>> On Jan 6, 2012, at 12:20 PM, Raj Singh wrote:
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>>>> Hi group. I wrote a little XML validation tool for POIs. 
>>>> http://www.rajsingh.org/poiwg/poixmlvalidator.html
>>>> 
>>>> Hope this can encourage more people to experiment with creating POI files!
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>>>> http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/organization/staff/rsingh
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>>> Alex Hill Ph.D.
>>> www.alexshill.com
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