Bug 39234 – malformed metadata.xml

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-01-24 04:46:13 UTC]

here are a list of malformed metadata.xml, can maintainers please fix them?

Malformed XML in /usr/portage/dev-lang/cm3/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 17, column 7
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/dev-lang/cm3-bin/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 17, column 7
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/dev-lang/pm3/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 13, column 75

(contains non-utf8 characters)

Malformed XML in /usr/portage/games-fps/anaglyph-stereo-quake/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 24, column 1

(conflicts in file)

Malformed XML in /usr/portage/x11-misc/Xautoconfig/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/x11-misc/afbinit/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/x11-misc/ami/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/x11-misc/culmus/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/x11-misc/e-fancylauncher/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/x11-misc/ebindings/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1
Malformed XML in /usr/portage/x11-misc/efax-gtk/metadata.xml : not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 1

(weird ascii string at the start)

btw, how did those metadata.xml files get generated? it seems like some tool, what is it? someone needs to tell the author of the tool to fix the output.

[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-01-24 04:57:27 UTC]

oops, strike the anaglyph-stereo-quake one, it was something with my checkout .. weird .. 

[Comment 2 Brandon Hale (RETIRED) 2004-01-24 07:00:50 UTC]

I fixed the problems, where accurate.. one or two have been fixed since you cvs up'd. These were generated by a script I wrote at d.g.o/~tseng/metadata, and was used to create metadata for most of x11-misc. Most of it was fine.. it was a one time use kinda thing and im not interested in fixing the script, however everything should be straight now on my side.

Thanks for the report!
--tseng

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-01-24 12:00:27 UTC]

i just copied the description from the homepage to make my metadata.xml's

[Comment 4 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-02-01 03:57:52 UTC]

tseng, i think the problem is that "einfo" line in your script. last time seemant used your script to generate quite a alot of invalid metadata files.

could you maybe redirect the einfo line to stdout, so something like:

einfo "Generating metadata.xml" 1>&2

[Comment 5 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-02-01 03:58:44 UTC]

ryan, can you please check the metadata.xml for app-misc/note. it's malformed XML.

[Comment 6 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2004-02-02 09:30:27 UTC]

Fixed note's metadata.xml

[Comment 7 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2004-02-04 10:11:47 UTC]

ryan, thanks for fixing the metadata.