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anagpal
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

ReadyAPI TestSuite not opening (XML Error)

Hi, I created TestSuite in ReadyAPI, it was working fine till yesterday, Todat when i opened the tool, my test suite was grayed out and i am not able to open it. I tried to open the TestSuite XML it...
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richie
Community Hero
6 years ago

Hi anagpal

 

just a follow up to what Tanya stated.  a similar thing happens quite often for me.  Essentially it sounds like what I get.  Essentially the project file is saved in .xml.  However, if the file isn't wellformed xml (including not wellformed relative to the specified default xml char encoding of UTF-8 - this will result in the file not being able to be opened.

 

If you try and open the project.xml file in something like XMLSpy (that has an XML parser) you will notice certain characters have been substituted because the file has become corrupt.

 

To fix this what I normally do is open the file in XMLSpy so I have an idea where the corruption is.  Then I close and reopen the file in something that doesnt include an XML parser like notepad++ and then I edit the file making it wellformed again.

 

project.xml file corruption has happened a lot for me - so Im quite used to fixing it when this happens.

 

cheers

 

richie

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    anagpal
    Occasional Contributor
    6 years ago

    thanks Richie :)