TIMELINE. timeline not showing any events

I created this timeline a while ago and today I edited the events file.
When I checked the timeline, it was not updating. I disabled the cache and
saw these errors:
firefox: caught exception: type error: v1 has no properties
IE: object error
I've gone through my xml and html files but cannot figure out what is
casing this error, as it was working fine before.

Windows/Mac
IE/Firefox 

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Philippe Verdenal - 28/Jan/08 04:07 AM
I have exactly the same issue, for about a week now... I have been using
several timeline for quite a while without any problem...
I need it to be resolved as this timeline shows an important project follow-up.
Thanks in advance for any kind of help.
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Philippe Verdenal - 28/Jan/08 04:07 AM I have exactly the same issue, for
about a week now... I have been using several timeline for quite a while
without any problem... I need it to be resolved as this timeline shows an
important project follow-up. Thanks in advance for any kind of help.

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Vincent Vazzo - 19/Feb/08 11:28 AM
Usually (always?) when this has happened to me, I've found some piece of
"rogue" data in my XML file. I.E., something that needs an HTML special
entity (e.g. &amp; instead of &).

See: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html

and see if anything you're trying to display in your timeline has one of
these characters. I'll be there's something...
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Vincent Vazzo - 19/Feb/08 11:28 AM Usually (always?) when this has happened
to me, I've found some piece of "rogue" data in my XML file. I.E.,
something that needs an HTML special entity (e.g. &amp; instead of &). See:
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html and see if
anything you're trying to display in your timeline has one of these
characters. I'll be there's something...

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Rich Cochrane - 27/Feb/08 05:24 AM
I'm new to SIMILE timeline and having (I think) the same problem. I copied
the Monet example onto our web server and am trying to get it to work:

http://www.bigi.org.uk/timeline/timeline.html

I copied the HTML file and fixed the relative paths. I'm using the Monet
XML doc, unmodified except to fix relative paths and remove one
dodgy-looking character (I think an em-dash):
http://www.bigi.org.uk/timeline/monet.xml

In IE 7.0 I get the "Caught Exception: [Object Error]" alert. The events
with start dates only (birth and death) load, but the events with start and
end dates don't.

I haven't had the chance to try this on Firefox yet, sorry.

The following timeline from someone else's site seems to have exactly the
same problem:
http://lifehacker.com/software/memory/geek-to-live--roll-your-own-timeline-20742
6.php

Is this an IE7 issue? Or am I making a rookie error? Any help would be much
appreciated, I'm hoping to be able to use this to build a major feature for
our site as the examples on your site are really beautiful.

Cheers,

Rich
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Rich Cochrane - 27/Feb/08 05:24 AM I'm new to SIMILE timeline and having (I
think) the same problem. I copied the Monet example onto our web server and
am trying to get it to work: http://www.bigi.org.uk/timeline/timeline.htmlI
copied the HTML file and fixed the relative paths. I'm using the Monet XML
doc, unmodified except to fix relative paths and remove one dodgy-looking
character (I think an em-dash): http://www.bigi.org.uk/timeline/monet.xmlIn
IE 7.0 I get the "Caught Exception: [Object Error]" alert. The events with
start dates only (birth and death) load, but the events with start and end
dates don't. I haven't had the chance to try this on Firefox yet, sorry.
The following timeline from someone else's site seems to have exactly the
same problem:
http://lifehacker.com/software/memory/geek-to-live--roll-your-own-timeline-20742
6.phpIs
this an IE7 issue? Or am I making a rookie error? Any help would be much
appreciated, I'm hoping to be able to use this to build a major feature for
our site as the examples on your site are really beautiful. Cheers, Rich

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Rich Cochrane - 27/Feb/08 06:30 AM
Please ignore my previous comment -- for some reason the timeline is now
working.

Now for the fun part. Thanks for building what looks like a great tool!

Cheers,

Rich
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Rich Cochrane - 27/Feb/08 06:30 AM Please ignore my previous comment -- for
some reason the timeline is now working. Now for the fun part. Thanks for
building what looks like a great tool! Cheers, Rich
Original issue reported on code.google.com by GabrielR...@googlemail.com on 8 Apr 2009 at 2:51
Elhellawy / simile-widgets

TIMELINE. timeline not showing any events #234
