Upgrade StorageImporting simple trees (Treelite, Keynote...)
First of all - what an awesome product zotero is! Hats off!
I wanted to use it for a simple information tree. But I had quite a few info organized as Keynote entries. (An excellent old program - development discontinued).
Anyway, I created one simple note as a collection, exported it and based on that format, created some more entries manually. I tested importing this file and all notes came inside.
Then I tried the same thing with some Keynote nodes. I exported them as HTML entires in Keynote (provided by the program) and wrote a quick script to convert them into the RDF format. When I tried to import them, I got the following error:
An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again.
The file contained some 5 records and nothing got imported. I tried one by one and some wroked. Out of the ones that did not work, I found out (or thought I found out) that the string 'â"' in one of the <RDF:value> tag was causing the problem. I removed it and this record came inside Zotero OK.
However, I was not fortunate to find what was wrong with the other records. So, I am unable to proceed with my 'simple' use of Zotero for my existing collections available outside Zotero.
My questions:
(a) Is there any known methods to bring such tree data inside Zotero as simple notes collections?
(b) Is there any means of finding out what could be the error portion in a file being imported?
(c) Is it feasible to ignore the error record and import the other ones if the file is in error?
(d) Any thing else I should consider?
Thanks for such a nice product and thanks for support from anyone.
With regards
Sundar
I wanted to use it for a simple information tree. But I had quite a few info organized as Keynote entries. (An excellent old program - development discontinued).
Anyway, I created one simple note as a collection, exported it and based on that format, created some more entries manually. I tested importing this file and all notes came inside.
Then I tried the same thing with some Keynote nodes. I exported them as HTML entires in Keynote (provided by the program) and wrote a quick script to convert them into the RDF format. When I tried to import them, I got the following error:
An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again.
The file contained some 5 records and nothing got imported. I tried one by one and some wroked. Out of the ones that did not work, I found out (or thought I found out) that the string 'â"' in one of the <RDF:value> tag was causing the problem. I removed it and this record came inside Zotero OK.
However, I was not fortunate to find what was wrong with the other records. So, I am unable to proceed with my 'simple' use of Zotero for my existing collections available outside Zotero.
My questions:
(a) Is there any known methods to bring such tree data inside Zotero as simple notes collections?
(b) Is there any means of finding out what could be the error portion in a file being imported?
(c) Is it feasible to ignore the error record and import the other ones if the file is in error?
(d) Any thing else I should consider?
Thanks for such a nice product and thanks for support from anyone.
With regards
Sundar
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I have concluded that the trouble was with the symbol &. I replaced it with & while creating the output file (but before replacing < and > with < and > respectively). The test data seem to have gone through.
Thanks for the effort and participation.