Re: dia barfing on valid xml input

["Aaron Trevena" <aaron trevena gmail com>]

2008/5/1 Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>:
>  Yes. And there is one importer registering for xml now : doxml.py.
>  So the automatic detection does not pick-up the one you want. If you call
>  your file filename.dia that would certainly help.

That fixes it, but is definately a workaround rather than solution.

>  Formerly there was no importer registering for xml so you cgot the Dia
>  format reader by fallback.

May I politely suggest checking the namespace of an xml file before
deciding which importer to use, failing that a graceful fallback would
be to revert to previous behaviour if using the python importer breaks
rather than barfing on a valid file because of the extension.

A.


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