[R] odfWeave & XML error in post-processing

[Max Kuhn]

There is a function called odfTranslate that will help deal with  
characters that might confound XML. You might need to use it on the  
row/column names of your output.

Max

On Oct 10, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Rob James <rob at aetiologic.ca> wrote:

> Just to close out my earlier posting, I have identified and resolved  
> the following odfWeave/XML error:
>
>>> xmlParseStartTag: invalid element name
>>>
>
> I  used odfWeave to call various logistic regression models which  
> included the above mentioned variable. odfWeave failed to generate  
> the destination file throwing multiple lines of the above error.
>
> It happened that the dataset originated in STATA (probably  
> irrelevant),  and included a variable which had five levels. Two of  
> those levels had values of
> "(1)<3500" and "(5)=>5000".
> So, while these codes did not appear in the source document, these  
> codes appear in the odfWeave destination file.   The results were  
> displayed in the document using the following crude method:
>
> results <-glm(......
>
> and subsequently reported out using :
>
> odfTable(
>
> as.matrix(results[,c(X1, X2, X3)],)
>
> horizontal = TRUE)
>
> odfTableCaption("Selected Logistic Regression Results for RXN3  
> outcome")
>
>
> @
>
> I received xmlParseStartTag errors for each such table.  Editting of  
> the XML file in gedit highlighted the above values as problematic.
>
> I then removed the two problematic value for this variable, and re- 
> ran odfWeave, which generated the output I needed.
>
> So, it appears that these values of this variable operated as  
> invalid xmlParseStartTags, and that the process of wrapping up  
> content_1.xml back into an ODF file failed because of the mis- 
> recognition of these ParseStartTags found embedded in the data.   I  
> think this is likely to be regarded more as a feature than as a bug,  
> but it is none-the-less a cautionary tale.
>
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