Waypoints description problem?!

Former Member over 12 years ago

Hi,

just tried to add the waypoint description in the html format which by the way seams to be only solution to include photos in the gpx file but the problem is that after exporting the gpx file with base camp it convert html code to some strange characters, please see below code examples:

The code that is added to under the note tab of the waypoint:
<img src='www.symbian-freak.com/.../crkvica_sv_jure.jpg' weight='240' heigth='160' />

The code that I am getting in the exported GPX file:

<wpt lat="43.342003980651498" lon="17.053848020732403">

    <ele>1367.60546875</ele>

    <time>2012-08-22T06:25:40Z</time>

    <name>Sveti Jure</name>

    <cmt>&lt;img src='www.symbian-freak.com/.../crkvica_sv_jure.jpg' weight='240' heigth='160' /&gt;</cmt>

    <desc>&lt;img src='www.symbian-freak.com/.../crkvica_sv_jure.jpg' weight='240' heigth='160' /&gt;</desc>

    <sym>Summit</sym>

    <type>user</type>

    <extensions>

      <gpxx:WaypointExtension>

        <gpxx:DisplayMode>SymbolAndName</gpxx:DisplayMode>

        <gpxx:Categories>

          <gpxx:Category>01 Turija - Sv. Jure - Lokva - Sv. Ilija - Dedici</gpxx:Category>

        </gpxx:Categories>

      </gpxx:WaypointExtension>

    </extensions>

  </wpt>

the problem is with:

<desc>&lt;  ...  &gt;</desc>

it should looks like:

<desc>< ... ></desc>

Any hint? Manual editing of the larger GPX file that contains number of photos is not an option :confused:

How to force Basecamp not to keep original html code?

Kind regards,
Teo

0 JaVaWa over 12 years ago

You cannot change this behaviour because this is exactly how it should be. The reason is that certain characters are not allowed in xml data (gpx is xml); the most important are <, > and &. The reason for this is that it would conflict with the definition of the xml tags.
Therefore those special characters are translated into their html entities: < becomes < (lesser than), > becomes > and & becomes &
A proper xml parser will translate those codes automatically in the original characters; otherwise you'll have to change your code to do the translation.

Also take care when you are going to using accented characters in your files: in gpx files text must always be encoded as UTF 8.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Hmm, but if I manually edit code everything works fine and both Google maps and earth shows correct description!?

Here is the sample file:

www.corejoomla.com/.../4-araya-afona-chivisaya-gpx-version.html

and the live preview as well:

www.corejoomla.com/.../4-araya-afona-chivisaya-gpx-version.html

I want to say that this:
<desc><img src='www.symbian-freak.com/.../crkvica_sv_jure.jpg' weight='240' heigth='160' /></desc>

While this dosen't:
<desc><img src='www.symbian-freak.com/.../crkvica_sv_jure.jpg' weight='240' heigth='160' /></desc>

Teo

0 JaVaWa over 12 years ago

Well, the character translation is one way to handle those special characters (and the one that BaseCamp uses), but the other method is to enclose the html string between <![CDATA[ and ]]>.
I don't know wether BaseCamp supports that method, but Google Earth does.
The sample that you are referring to uses this method.
Simply putting the html code between the <desc> tags is not going to work, unless you are using a script that doesn't handle xml data in the official way.

0 Former Member over 12 years ago

Already tried that but unfortunately BaseCamp not support it :/

However I found solution by tweaking the script to correctly phrase those characters and then proceed with request Google maps…

Thanks 4 support by the way,
Teo