Re: corruption

Hi!

> i began investigating why.  Apparently TONS of my .data files have been
> SO corrupted that gedit/gvim/etc says they are binary files.  ARGH.

Uhm. They _are_ binary files ...

> Maybe they are, but they are still causing strange non-ascii chars next
> to url's in my html and xml files in my weblog and aggregator.  I've 
> got
> the html and xml files stripped of the badness BUT the .data files are
> still corrupted.  It seems like the ML files are being created out of
> the .data files.  Is this true?

Yep. The HTML and XML stuff is directly generated out of the .data 
files, using the .tmpl files.

>   Is there some way I can "reverse" the
> data->ML process to get a clean set of data files?

None that I am aware of. Or to be more specific: none besides writing 
some Python script that works through your data files and repairs 
elements.

What about your Metakit and other library versions. Could you give 
version numbers for the stuff you use, most specificially the versions 
of Python and Metakit and the distribution or operating system you use?

bye, Georg