Re: Corruption causing Gramps to crash

On 22/11/2021 13:31, Emyoulation--- via Gramps-users wrote:
> Nice. Lots of citations in a such small section!
> 
> With a quick read of the raw .gramps file, 

I thought .gramps files were XML, but looking at my own exports, they're
a binary format. What are you using to read one?

> I only noticed one thing that gave me immediate pause. In the 
> description for Event E13779 (a probate record), it starts with a 
> "less than" symbol (&lt;). "< £125000" I always worry about whether
> software will choke on a text value that starts with a piping
> character.
If the file /was/ XML, then the escaped &lt; is safe because the parser
will deal with it. It would then be up to the user to use suitable
software that will understand the file format. But I share your
misgivings if the file is non-XML and plaintext, because shell scripts
may indeed misinterpret the character.  I'm not sure what happens if you
try to read a binary file with the standard shell scripting tools.

Peter


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