Jim Menard wrote: > Jamis Buck wrote: > >> Jim Menard wrote: >> >>> 1) There are some records near the end of the data like this: >>> >>> 0 @F46@ F100 24709 100 24709 0 0 18316 0 0:00:01 >>> 0:00:01 0:00:00 21636100 24709 100 24709 0 0 18316 0 >>> 0:00:01 0:00:01 0:00:00 21636 >>> >>> It has an ID, but the data value is definitely NOT a legal XML tag >>> name. What does the Ruby Quiz spec have to say about that? >> >> >> >> I can only assume this got garbled in transmission, because I can't >> make heads or tails out of it. :( I certainly can't find anything in >> the royal.ged file that looks like that. Can you please clarify? > > > Around 16 lines from the bottom of the file, I see that line. There is > one embedded ^M, telling me that the line endings have been screwed up > somewhere. (I used curl to retrieve the file to a Windows box. Emacs > says the line endings are Unix, but every line has a ^M at the end.) Hmmm. I see the "0 @F46@", but after that it is completely different. Here's the tail of what I have: 0 @F46@ FAM 1 WIFE @I46@ 1 RIN 138 0 @F47@ FAM 1 CHIL @I31@ 1 RIN 139 1 SOUR @S1@ 2 PAGE 1 0 @S1@ SOUR 1 TEXT Hello 0 TRLR I can only imagine that something went terribly wrong when you downloaded the file. :( - Jamis -- Jamis Buck jgb3 / email.byu.edu http://www.jamisbuck.org/jamis