New Zealand Herald giving translator error

Alan Liefting
I am using the latest firefox and zotero but I have been getting translators on the New Zealand Herald site ( http://www.nzherald.co.nz ). Have tried resetting and updating them in my preferences.
  • adamsmith
    edited March 15, 2012
    works for me - sample URL (i.e a specific article)?
  • Alan Liefting
    Try this on http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10791821
  • adamsmith
    works for me. Are you logged in to the page? I'm not, that could potentially make a difference.

    Try disabling your other add-ons (temporarily, for troubleshooting), see if that makes a difference.

    If it doesn't, send an error report ID:
    http://www.zotero.org/support/reporting_bugs

    If you want to, looks at the error report yourself and post the part that mentions New Zealand Herald.js - that last part isn't necessary, might just speed things up.
  • Alan Liefting
    Same error if I am logged on.
  • Alan Liefting
    Error report:
    [JavaScript Error: "doc.evaluate(myXPath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext() is null" {file: "C:\Documents and Settings\Alan Liefting\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\4hwa8ujd.default\zotero\translators\New Zealand Herald.js" line: 53}]
  • adamsmith
    that's quite odd & really shouldn't be the case.
    If you're interested in helping troubleshoot this further, you can install the XCpath bookmarklet from here:
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/848981/it/xp/xp.html
    (yes, the site looks a bit dodgy, but it's fine.)
    once you have the bookmark in you bookmark toolbar, go to a NZH article page, click the bookmarklet and the click the title/headline of the article (i.e stripping valuables from waste... in the example you link to). The bookmarklet will open a small window with an xpath (something like
    //div[contains(@class, "wrapper") and contains(@class, "bg")
    and contains(@class, "")]/div[@class="rootContainer"]/div[@class="midContent" and @id="articlePage"]
    /div[contains(@class, "wrapper") and contains(@class, "left")]/div[contains(@class, "contentContainer") and contains(@class, "left") and contains(@class, "eight")]/div[@class="storyHeader"]/h1

    copy & paste that xpath here.
  • Alan Liefting
    Here it is
    //div[contains(@class, "wrapper") and contains(@class, "bg") and contains(@class, "")]/div[@class="rootContainer"]/div[@class="midContent" and @id="articlePage"]/div[contains(@class, "wrapper") and contains(@class, "left")]/div[contains(@class, "contentContainer") and contains(@class, "left") and contains(@class, "eight")]/div[contains(@class, "contentContainer") and contains(@class, "right") and contains(@class, "two") and contains(@class, "nopad") and contains(@class, "relatedColumn")]/div[@class="relatedArticles"]/ol[@class="listStyle1"]/li[@class="imageArticle"]/a[2]
  • Alan Liefting
    As text:

    //div[contains(@class, "wrapper") and contains(@class, "bg") and contains(@class, "")]/div[@class="rootContainer"]/div[@class="midContent" and @id="articlePage"]/div[contains(@class, "wrapper") and contains(@class, "left")]/div[contains(@class, "contentContainer") and contains(@class, "left") and contains(@class, "eight")]/div[contains(@class, "contentContainer") and contains(@class, "right") and contains(@class, "two") and contains(@class, "nopad") and contains(@class, "relatedColumn")]/div[@class="relatedArticles"]/ol[@class="listStyle1"]/li[@class="imageArticle"]/a[2]
  • adamsmith
    thanks, that's helpful. And that's the xpath for clicking on the big headline?
    That would be very surprising, but would explain the problem.
    If you delete everything in that yellow pop-up window an put type/paste //h1 - does the button on the top right say "hit" or "miss"?
  • Alan Liefting
    Fixed it with adblocker addon for firefox
  • adamsmith
    ah yes - I should have thought of that - sorry.
  • nickbraxton
    Hi. I'm having the same problem with the NZ Herald. I've disabled adblock plus but it's made no difference. Any ideas?
  • Jacinda Herring
    Hi there, I'm having the same problem with the NZ Herald. I've tried troubleshooting but nothing seems to be fixing the problem.
  • adamsmith
    A translator fix is now up. Your version of Zotero will automatically update within 24hs, or you can update manually using the "Update Now" button in the "General" tab of the Zotero preferences.

    Any further problems let us know & thanks for reporting
  • Jacinda Herring
    Hi there, problem solved, thanks so much!
  • nickbraxton
    Thanks!
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