xmltv importer 'stops' - undeclared entity 'nbsp'

[newschapmj1]

I use Digiguide + Birtles XMLTV grabber with the free XMLTV Importer.

I got the error message below over the last 2 weeks.
It took me a while to look in the error log folder as I would have expected an error alert on the screen.
The Application was still using 17% CPU and the progress bar was changing colour so I thought the application was working normally.

Clicking on "Open Configuration and Logs Folder" pointed me to the cause of the problem

Hopefully this will stop other new users making the same silly mistake

removing nbsp from the xmtv file fixed the problem.
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20090207 10:04:43.072 - Info - Import Started
20090207 10:04:49.461 - Info - Processing XMLTV Source: Default
20090207 10:04:49.463 - Info - Loading XMLTV File: C:\Users\TV\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\epgdata.xml
20090207 10:04:52.189 - Error - Unable to parse XMLTV File 'C:\Users\TV\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\SageTV\SageTV\epgdata.xml': Reference to undeclared entity 'nbsp'. Line 110700, position 35.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg, Int32 lineNo, Int32 linePos)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.HandleGeneralEntityReference(String name, Boolean isInAttributeValue, Boolean pushFakeEntityIfNullResolver, Int32 entityStartLinePos)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ResolveEntity()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadEntityReferenceNode(Boolean direct)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadDocSequence(XmlDocument parentDoc)
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)
at LMGestion.XMLTVImporter.XMLTVImporter.DoImport()

[ElGato]

How do you stop it happening in the first place?

[rickgillyon]

I have a routine that cleans up some common xml problems using ALTER - available freeware around the net. Script does:

set xvid=C:\XviD\
set log=%xvid%XMLTVlog.txt
set sage=Y:\SageTV\
set gui="C:\Program Files\XMLTV GUI\XmltvGUI.exe"
echo %Date% %time%: XMLTV Started  >> %log%
%gui% /cdigi /Grab /d14
ALTER 5.xml 16 ""
ALTER 5.xml "" ""
ALTER 5.xml "&B;" "+B;"
ALTER 5.xml " " ""
del /Q *.del 2> nul
move /Y 5.xml %sage%
echo %Date% %time%: XMLTV Completed Successfully >> %log%

[newschapmj1]

Can anyone find this useful alter software?

My google searches are not as good as I thought!

[rickgillyon]

Find alter here:
http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/free_s...htm#searchrepl