[kepler-dev] Problems with reformatting workflows

[Dan Higgins]

Hi All,

    I just started having problems with some R workflows that has 
previously worked OK. I traced the problem to a simple change in the 
formatting of the moml file! It turns out that the eml2 DataSource has a 
property called 'schemaDef', the value of which is a long expression 
containing many xml entities like > or " Originally the property 
was all on one line, 1005 characters long. Somewhere along the way, the 
moml got reformatted and a line feed was inserted after 512 characters. 
Unfortunately, this line feed appeared in the middle of a '&quote;' 
entity so that '&q' ended one line and 'uote;' started the next line. 
The XML parser in PTII cannot handle such cases and thus throws an error!

    So this is just a warning that we have to be a bit careful about 
arbitrarily reformatting moml docs. In some cases this will 'break' a 
working model! (and maybe we need to figure out how to avoid such long 
property values?)

Dan

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