Re: string-to-sequence error in Emacs/nxml

On 24 July 2015 at 15:29, Syd Bauman <[email protected]> wrote:
> [This is a reply to the thread "Error message on validation.",
> started 2013-08-15 by Dave on the emacs-nxml-mode Yahoo group. I like
> to think of myself as a reasonably smart guy, but for the life of me
> I have (apparently) yet to figure out how to successfully post
> there.]

Forwarding to the list Syd.
Further comment in line?


>
> Found it!
>
> On my Ubuntu desktop (version 14.04, I think), I have Emacs 24 installed.[1]
> Like Dave and Norm, I grepped for "string-to-sequence" in all the .el files
> that might be causing the problem, and did not find it. But then I grepped
> for it in *all* of the .el and .elc files in the entire system. I found that
> several .elc files had that function call, where the corresponding .el file
> had something else (string-to-list or string-to-vector, supposedly). After I
> re-byte-compiled those .el files into new .elc files, the mysterious error
> disappeared.


Silly question... which .elc files <grin/>

In the emacs build, in other (sgml-mode, xml-mode) area?
Any clues please.

regards


>
> Note
> ----
> [1] "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.10.7) of
>     2014-03-07 on lamiak, modified by Debian", to be precise. The
>     underlying Debian is version "jessie/sid".
>
> --
>  Syd Bauman, EMT-Paramedic
>  Senior XML Programmer/Analyst
>  Northeastern University Women Writers Project
>  [email protected] or
>  [email protected]
>  [I also have [email protected] which is in theory now subscribed
>   to the Yahoo group emacs-nxml-mode, but I don't regularly read mail
>   there.]



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