Corruption in content.rdf

[JasonTimmins]

Hi There,

 

I'm not sure if this is the right place but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

 

My import routine for the DMOZ data is blowing-up with an XML scheme failure around line 26946609 of this week's (2008/02/18) content.rdf file.

 

It's to do with an external link to portaljove .com in Top/World/Español/Regional/Europa/España/Comunidades_Autónomas/Comunidad_Valenciana/Educación. The record seems to have two descriptions (one of with is missing it's closing tag) and a second title tag inside one of the descriptions. Anyway, it's a bit of a mess. Can an editor take a look at it?

 

Cheers

Jason

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[dermotz]

The DMOZ rdf dump has always contained errors.

 

You need to change your software to copy with the corrupted data.

[hansfn]

dermotz, you shouldn't reply to a thread about a topic you clearly don't have any real knowledge about. The current content.rdf is seriously broken with incomplete/broken/cut-off/mixed elements which no software can fix. I have reported the problem in bugs forum internally in DMOZ/ODP. Let's hope that the sysadmin/developers can fix this quickly.

 

PS! I have found one more in World/Norsk/Kunst_og_kultur/Litteratur/Forfattere/Ø/

[JasonTimmins]

Hi There,

 

Thanks for the update. This week's content file is much worse than the previous week's. I found seven errors before I gave up fixing them and admitted defeat.

 

Let's hope the DMOZ people get it together soon.

 

Bye for now

Jason.

 

PS. If it helps, I have the seven broken XML chunks on file.

[cmeerw]

This week's RDF dump appears to be OK.

 

 

Christof