Error on character load

[BenKimball]

HD 1.46, Win2000 (under Virtual PC). When I open my character file in HD, I get an "Error retrieving template" error message:

"An error occurred retrieving the template used for the saved character. Using 'Standard Super' template.

Error Message: Error on line 539 of document file S:/Koan.hdc: Illegal character at end of document, E."

Clicking OK results in a second error:

"Error loading template: An error occurred loadig the template. Data loss may occur if you save. Please shut down Hero Designer and restart." This is followed by the same "Error Message" text as before.

I looked at Koan.hdc, and it doesn't have a line 539 (it's 490 lines long). I removed the two trailing linefeeds just to see what happened, but there was no effect. Then I tried looking at the .hdt file referenced by the error, but I couldn't see anything wrong with its line 539 (definition of CON cost) either -- no extra 'E' at the end of the line, for example.

Maybe I should edit my .hdc file to specify a different template? Any help appreciated!

Cheers,
Ben

P.S. I've enclosed the HDC file in question in case it helps.

[Simon]

Looks like, for whatever reason, you had some garbage tossed in at the end of the file. Delete all lines after </CHARACTER> -- about 3 lines, from what I can see.

Once you delete those lines, the document should parse fine.

[BenKimball]

Originally posted by dsimon
Looks like, for whatever reason, you had some garbage tossed in at the end of the file. Delete all lines after </CHARACTER> -- about 3 lines, from what I can see.

Once you delete those lines, the document should parse fine.

Thanks! It worked. There was some extra XML in there that was badly formatted.

Cheers,
Ben

[caris]

OK, sorry, but I am not extremely programing savvy. A new player brought his character over today on disk. I was able to open his character with no problem, but now I'm unable to open any characters (including the version of his character that I saved to my system). I get two error message windows when I try to open a character.

First:

"An error occured retrieving the template used for saved character. Using 'Standard Super' template"

"Error message: Connection refused: connect"

After clicking OK, second message:

"An error occured loading the template.
Data loss may occur if you save.

Please shut down Hero Designer and restart.

Error Message: Connection refused: connect"

After clicking ok, a character opens named the same as the file I tried to open, but there is no data displayed for the character.

This happens with every character file I try to open.

It sounds similar to this problem. Any suggestions?

[caris]

Never mind. We figured it out.