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Error during survey: element name contains invalid characters

jeff.smith — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 07:21:17 GMT

Sorry for the vague post, but is there any idea why this error occurs? It appears to have happened when changing from one script to the next. (Web player 5.0.4.0, IE11). I understand if this may not be enough information to provide an answer :P

08/06/2016 - 19:14:06	Error	jeffsmith/Batch/Batch.iqx.html.xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"	element name contains invalid characters.
	08/06/2016 - 19:14:06	Error	jeffsmith/Batch/Batch.iqx.html.xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US" xml:lang="en-US"	element name contains invalid characters.

RE: Error during survey: element name contains invalid characters

Dave — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 07:21:17 GMT

Thanks for the confirmation. I've examined that script in detail and run some additional tests with it (both in isolation as well as together with other scripts). I'm not seeing any errors in the script -- certainly no illegal characters in any element names or the like -- and have been unable to reproduce the error. I would thus maintain that this was likely caused by a corrupted download.

RE: Error during survey: element name contains invalid characters

jeff.smith — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 06:03:50 GMT

(Sorry for late reply)

Yes, that is correct.

RE: Error during survey: element name contains invalid characters

Dave — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:17:08 GMT

Okay, so the script affected would have been "HHHI_Likert.iqx", correct?

RE: Error during survey: element name contains invalid characters

jeff.smith — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 07:04:33 GMT

Progression was Start with batch script --> Consent form --> Likert Q's --> AMP test --> Error (Should have been a new set of likert Q's)

RE: Error during survey: element name contains invalid characters

Dave — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 08:03:22 GMT

Do you happen to know where exactly the error occurred? I.e., the transition between script A to B, or B to C, etc.? Asking because -- after having looked the scripts over -- no invalid characters in any elements jump out at me.

My guess would be that the respective script was corrupted during download / got cut off / was garbled, leading the parser to throw that error.