Following up on your suggestions, I contacted the current maintainer of the XXE plugin, and he and I spent an hour on the phone and in jabber investigating this. In the end, he had me rename xmlmimd.app and the support directory ~/Library/Application\ Support/XMLmind, and reinstall the application from scratch. That in fact corrected the issue. I have no idea what became corrupted or how (I can, however, tell you that the plug-in was not corrupted), but I can tell you that re-installing the application with the plug-in results in it correctly working.
To answer your several questions, yes, I had re-downloaded Jabber 1.8 version 201 from the Oracle site, I was in fact running XMLMind 8.3, and I see no evidence that the plug-in was faulty given that it is unchanged from what it was previously, and it now works. Whatever the issue was, it was fixed by re-installing the application and the plug-in. > On Apr 8, 2019, at 12:49 AM, Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote: > > On 04/08/2019 02:09 AM, Fred Baker wrote: >> I have been using XMLMind for ages, with the XXE plugin used for RFC and >> Internet Draft development. Suddenly (with in a month or two) it has >> developed a problem that it hasn't had before: it won't open a .xml file >> that it would previously open. I know the information is getting to the >> application because if I tell it (via the XML2RFC "edit in" tab) to open the >> file it can't open using a text editor such as TextWrangler, it opens it. >> Therefore, the file exists and is generally usable. But the XML Editor won't >> open it, and gives me no diagnostic to say why. >> > > Are you sure the plugin you are using (which is not our work and which we > have never tested) has been updated in order to make it compatible with > XMLmind XML Editor v8.3? > > > > >> Things I have tried: >> - open an existing file or template (the difference being that templates >> are read-only) >> - duplicate such a file and open that >> - create a new file using an existing template > > > XMLmind XML Editor v8.3 has been thoroughly tested on latest (non-beta) macOS > Mojave. It's almost certainly an issue caused by an outdated plugin. > > > > >> >> Any clues? >> > > In principle you should contact the authors of the plugin to get some answers. > > However what follows is the generic answer to learn more about what happens: > > 1) Not 100% sure that this will work but it's worth giving it a try. > > Let's suppose you have installed > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_download/xxe-perso-8_3_0.dmg > > Please open a terminal and cd to XMLmind.app/Contents/MacOS/. > > Start XXE using the shell-script called "xxe-mac.sh" > > Opening a RFC in XXE will almost certainly print a lot of errors messages > (Java "stack traces") on the terminal. Please send us a copy of all these > error messages. > > OR > > 2) Please download and unzip the ".zip" distribution of XMLmind XML Editor > v8.3, > > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_download/xxe-perso-8_3_0.zip > > then please open a terminal and start XXE using XXE_install_dir/bin/xxe. > > This should work provided you have a Java 1.8+ runtime installed on you > computer. > (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html#JDK8) > > Opening a RFC in XXE will almost certainly print a lot of errors messages > (Java "stack traces") on the terminal. Please send us a copy of all these > error messages. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, Defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun Tzu
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