Thank's for your reply to my email. as you can see whatever you did to forum allowed me to register.
I have 4 different sections on old site, only two of which i actually want content from. I tried both without static content. and both failed.
then i tried another section with only two articles. it failed also.

uninstalled the export_component from the site i want to install into and again. all fail.

reinstalled the component on the import site and fail.

My export site is on cjb.cc with joomla 1.0.11

Operating system Linux
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Kernel version 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL
Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.7
Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl
PHP version 4.4.4
MySQL version 4.1.21-standard



Import site is siteground.com with joomla 1.0.12
Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
Apache version 1.3.37 (Unix)
PERL version 5.8.7
Path to PERL /usr/bin/perl
PHP version 5.0.5
MySQL version 4.1.21-standard-log

Thanks

Hi netorius glad you could make it.

First thing is to grab the two patches from here: http://bestdownloadsites.com/export/viewtopic.php?t=11

If you still have no success I would say there are characters in the content stopping the installer.

Sometimes the site editors will generate accented characters or something may have been copy and pasted from word, notepad ect; that won't parse.

If you compile a section and do a search in the generated XML for any of these without the , " " , just the characters:

Code:

"’","","€œ", "€™", "€˜", "€”", "€","œ"

or anything similar.(XML may be found under the download page trouble shoot area) Note:These are only a few there are many more. I was going to address this in the next release so please get back to me and I'll try and put something together. Also here is a sample com_import_content_data that you can use for a test to see whether it will install on the destination site. http://bestdownloadsites.com/import_content_data.zip

ok, i think i found a new one for you.
i ran macros to search and remove each of the standard ascii chars..
here's what's left. in the text editor i was using it appeared as ascii II char acter 186 on this board its appearing as quotes. I remember now seeing ascii I character 127 in some posts after pasting. http://www.cdrummond.qc.ca/cegep/informat/Professeurs/Alain/files/ ascii.htm
note also by highlight with mouse and select beneath the chars below the additional "white" space.
I'm now going to reverse the process and try and search for the below characters and delete from xml file and try to import.
will let you know how it goes.


“”“”“”

success, it appears that it's the extended ascii chars i posted.
for your source of info, i found the article they are coming from and they are quotation marks. http://www.netorius.cjb.cc/view/News/Latest_News/ Stephen_Covey_and_A_Summary_Of_The_7_Habits/
they are not keyboard quotation marks as there is an opening and closing quotation mark.

K, now i'm off to try the other set of articles.
will let you know if i find anything else.

apparently the second file/section contained a different character.
it the start and end of — and this is the better choice —

and they don't appear to be normal keyboard dashes.
http://www.netorius.cjb.cc/view/Search_Engine_Optimization_SEO/ Latest_SEO/New__Blogger/

is the article.

hope this helps.

I know i use textpad,, have forever it seems. i know more people use uedit.
sounds like i a macro that can parse through a file and strip out all standard ascii characters is called for..

anyways, have it all imported now..
the cjb site will be coming down soon as my new domain is up.
lots of other content to move into it yet.

Netorius
12bmedia.com

Hi netorius

Glad to hear you got the job done.
I have been putting together a replacement function that will grab any of the ASCII characters and replace them with their Numerical Code equivalent or if there is no matching character in the look up table a "?" will be displayed.

This should if all goes to plan be in the next release.

I put together a rough reference that you may find handy http://www.bestdownloadsites.com/ascii_table.html
More to add to it yet from the Extended ASCII range.
Like the 128 from your previous post will replaced with "& # 128;" without the spaces as that's just so it will post here:

Code:

128= € change to "& # 128;"

Also it appears that the"— " is another trouble maker I'll replace it with the "& # 151;" which should solve the issue. Thanks for the feedback it has been very helpful.

No, thank you. it's rather trivial data that i moved but i wanted to move it.
I had tried a msql dump and import.. lets say that after a couple tries and a couple joomla reinstalls.. i gave up.. Your component is GREAT.

I have always been into trouble shooting, I'm usually like a pit bull.. once i get my teeth in, i don't let go.. i remember taking apart clock radios and other things of mom and dads to "see how they work" or to "fix" them.

sometimes like this case, I just need a little nudge in a certain direction..

thanks for you help and QUICK responses and help.

old domain is Officially redirected to new domain. www.12bmedia.com.

would be more than happy to put up a button or banner or text link for you.
let me know if you have anything preferred.

QUOTE:
old domain is Officially redirected to new domain. www.12bmedia.com.

Nice job I like the template and the sizing feature at the top.

QUOTE:
would be more than happy to put up a button or banner or text link for you.
let me know if you have anything preferred.

I prefer text links but please don't feel obligated.

Hi Netorius

I have added a new function to replace Extended ASCII characters. http://bestdownloadsites.com/replace_accented/ admin.export_content.zip

If you could run a test on your content to see how it goes that would be great.

unzip and Upload/FTP to:
/administrator/components/com_export_content/admin.export_content.php
Replace admin.export_content.php
Then re-compile all the content and see if it will install. 8)