+Briarwoodhill Clan Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 I've opened several geocaches and then hit the "GPX File" button to create a GPX file of that one cache and many of them have not generated correctly with regard to the <> characters. Instead of < or > the GPX files has < or >. Thus <br> is translated as <br>. Not sure if this happens on any others but here are just two I tried, GCX2RZ and GCYV5X. Is this normal?
+palmetto Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 It's hard to say. The issue is not likely with the .gpx file, it's with the software you're using to open it.
+Briarwoodhill Clan Posted June 8, 2008 Author Posted June 8, 2008 It's hard to say. The issue is not likely with the .gpx file, it's with the software you're using to open it. I'm using a standard flat text editor. It's not altering the tags or miss reading them in any way. It's simply displaying what is in the file as I received it.
robertlipe Posted June 8, 2008 Posted June 8, 2008 What you describe is expected as that is the correct way to represent those characters in XML. As XML uses the angle brackets for its own way, it has to encode angle brackets that aren't part of the XML itself (i.e. those "smuggled" through as payload) as entities.
+Briarwoodhill Clan Posted June 9, 2008 Author Posted June 9, 2008 Hey thanks! That makes much more sense. Now I'll have to go back to Garmin and have them explain why the Colorado 400t hangs on those geocache pages. If I removed all the html tag stuff it works, so that was my first guess as to the problem. Thanks again.
+Driver Carries Cache Posted June 9, 2008 Posted June 9, 2008 Those are the ASCII codes for those individual "special" characters. It's common in HTML and other types of coding.
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