[Clipart] broken file?

Nicu Buculei nicu at apsro.com
Wed Jul 27 23:23:34 PDT 2005


crschmidt at crschmidt.net wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:51:28PM +0200, momo wrote:
> 
>>Hello everybody!
>>
>>http://openclipart.org/incoming/palm_tree_paul_mongillo_02.svg
>>
>>This file seems to be broken. It is located in the recently submited files.
>>I use Opera to browse the svg files, and this one shows:
>>
>>XML parsing failed: not well-formed (Line: 1, Character: 3)
>>
>>Can anyone take a look at it in another svg render (Corel, Adobe, inkscape ot Batik) to see if it is really broken or it's just Opera's renderer that has problems with it?
> 
> 
> Not sure exactly what's up with it: the actual data inside seems to be
> binary, not XML/SVG. Perhaps it's a different file type that
> accidentally got uploaded as SVG?

from what I see, it is a BMP file with the extension changed to SVG. 
this has tricked our submission system and it treated the file as SVG 
(appending metadata at the end of the file)

-- 
nicu



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