Illegal Characters in reportXML.xml cause Viewer error

[opakman84]

Do you any scripts that can remove illegal characters either in the protege repository or from the reportXML.xml file? This would be a great help, as I constantly run into these issues and I have to manually remove these characters from the reportXMl file. Thanks.

[jonathan.carter]

Yes, we have recently written a script to run in the Script Console Tab that identifies and removes illegal XML characters from the repository in Protege.
I will post it to the share area and post back here once it is available

Jonathan

[jonathan.carter]

I've just uploaded a copy of the script I use to identify and remove invalid XML characters from the repository in Protege.

Resolve Invalid Characters is a Jython script to be run in the Protege Script Console tab.

It runs in 2 modes:

• Find and remove all invalid characters
• Identify and report all invalid characters - which gives you the opportunity to resolve any invalid characters manually.
  
  To use the script, just go to the Script Console tab in Protege and type:
  

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  execfile("<FULL PATH TO YOUR COPY OF THE SCRIPT>/resolveInvalidXMLChars.py")

  Note, you need to use the Unix-style '/' directory separators as we're running in Java.
  
  Once this has run, the script will print some further instructions for how to use it.
  Example:

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  execfile("C:/Downloads/resolveInvalidXMLChars.py")
  
  removeInvalidCharacters(False)
  

  Reports all instances with invalid characters in the reported slot.
  
  Hope this helps you out.
  
  
  Jonathan