Did you validate your xml file:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp
http://www.xmlvalidation.com/
and others.
Xmls can fail if they contain an invalid character, possibly from an MS Word cut and paste.
I’m afraid these links were not particularly useful.
The first is asking to paste the XML into a box? No idea how to do that.
The second asks to update the file (which I did) but then says “No File has been transferred! Please copy your XML document in here”
As mentioned in the first post, this is just a file that has been exported from one WordPress site and uploaded to another – something we’ve done many many times before with no problem.
It is not a manually created file or anything like that, just your standard export / import of posts.
XML is plain text, so you can open it with a plain text editor and copy and paste the text into a validator. There are a few xml validators on the internet to try if one doesn’t work.
We are told there is an “error”, so that could be any of a number of problems. My best guess is that someone has used a character in a post which is not in the XML specification. Posts are manually created and may contain some text which has been cut and pasted from somewhere else. Validators will look for any non-compliant characters and these need to be changed or removed.
XML is exported and imported to a standard specification, but like any standard not all relevant scripts may be 100.0% compliant.
Check also the WordPress root and /wp-admin directories for a file called error_log. Again this is plain text and may contain an additional clue as to the nature of the error.
Thanks,
We’ll look into this further.
