Tikal -2tmx fails to convert the attached the ttx file

[Former user]

Original issue 292 created by nrawal.... on 2012-11-21T19:05:42.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Convert the attached ttx file to tmx using tikal

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
TMX file derived from converted ttx. I get an error message. It seems to come from common.pipelinedriver class.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I do not know the version of Tikal but it was downloaded pretty recently. My OS is Win 7 64-bit

Please provide any additional information below.
I think the input file contains some invalid characters but Tikal should report the issue and end gracefully rather then crashing.

[Former user]

Comment 1. originally posted by @ysavourel on 2012-11-21T20:36:06.000Z:

The file is not well-formed.
Basically there is some extra, missing or misplaced tag in it.

If you drop this XML document into FireFox or Chrone, you'll get something like:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: file:///C:/_Tests/121121_TTX2TMX/xyz.htm.ttx.xml
Line Number 37, Column 736:

Tikal will work with valid XML document only.

Yes, it does open in TagEditor but still: Try any normal XML processor and you'll get the error. Fixing the file should resolve the error.

I suspect this is related to DF tags: they are notorious to cause a lot of trouble in TTX. Maybe you can try to remove all opening and closing df tags and see how it goes.

Hope this helps,
-yves