[Opensim-users] load-xml in later versions

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Ying Zhong wrote:
> opensim-users-request at lists.berlios.de schrieb:
>   
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:48:26 +0100
>> From: Ai Austin <ai.ai.austin at googlemail.com>
>> Subject: [Opensim-users] load-xml in later versions
>> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
>> Message-ID: <200804071248.m37CmPkM008969 at dandy.inf.ed.ac.uk>
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>> I wonder if anyone can help me with prim XML save and load 
>> issue....  I built a building under version 3697 and have it saved as 
>> XML and the Version 2 XML.  I was trying to move it to the official 
>> 0.5.4 binary build or the latest April 7th nightly binary build and 
>> cannot get it to load...  I get this error...   but the XML file 
>> itself has no <Element> item in it at all anyway... I an using 
>> -newUID on the reload, but I wondered if there might be hard coded 
>> UUIDs for the original creator avatar in there causing the problem?
>>
>> Is there a reliable way to export the prims from an earlier version 
>> of Opensim in such a way that I can load them back into a fresh copy 
>> of the latest versions of Opensim?
>>
>>
>> load-xml testing.xml -newUID 0 0 20
>>
>> loadOffsets <X,Y,Z> = <0,0,20>
>>
>> 13:33:34 - [TASK INVENTORY]: Initial task inventory deserialization 
>> CanDeserialize() call was False
>>
>> 13:33:34 - [Console]: Command [load-xml tesing.xml -newUID 0 0 20] 
>> failed with exception System.Xml.XmlException: 'Element' is an 
>> invalid XmlNodeType. Line 1, position 964.
>>
>>   
>>     
The issue might actually be fixed in the latest build - some further 
fixes were performed on object deserialization

> I have also met this problem 2 weeks ago. After I set the "physics" 
> option in opensim.ini to another engine instead of basicphysics, e.g. 
> physics = OpenDynamicsEngine,  the load-xml works ok now...
>
> Ying
>   
>> Any help appreciated so I don't lose the building, and indeed can 
>> reliably save and reload such initial setups in future too.  Ai
>>
>> P.S. What is the difference between save-xml and save-xml2 formats by the way?
>>
>>
>>     
I keep asking that question myself!  I would love to know, especially if 
we eliminate one of them (perhaps load-xml2/save-xml2)?  Please shout if 
you are using this option, and why.

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justincc
Justin Clark-Casey