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  • August 4, 2016
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For the BRT Top10NL (dutch) we use FME desktop to transform gml's to shapes. The newest release of the Top10NL causes a problem. It is quoting "unbalanced quotation marks" But we don't get any more information. The log file is empty. The featuretypes (readers) are not getting connection or processed by. 0 reads.

We have so far tried a flex $(FME_MF_DIR) solution which doesn't work and a steady pathname which also doesn't work. We tried opening gml's in qgis and this works fine.

We have used FME Workbench version 2015 and 2016, but both have the seem error message.

We also tried the / and \\ in the pathnames, no result.

By now we are quite frustrated because we don't know where or what to look for.

Anyone recognizing this issue?

Best answer by tim_wood

I just had a similar problem caused by me updating the File Geodatabase name in a Writer. I obviously didn't do it quite right as it ended up like this:

"X:\\Folder With Space In\\output\\MyFGDB.gdb"""

Removing all the quotes and clicking OK fixed the problem - FME added a quote at each to encapsulate the path with a folder name that has spaces in it.

A minor complaint may be that FME should really be able to clean this issue up itself because you can't have double quotes in folder names in Windows. But maybe I don't know enough about the possible values for the Writer...

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david_r
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I've seen something similar when one of the input filenames contained an orphaned quotation mark that we forgot to remove, e.g.

c:\test\mydata.tab"

Might be worth a check.

erik_jan
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Have you tried opening the FMW file in a Text editor (Notepad ++) and see if you can find any unbalanced quotation?

I know it is not the most user friendly way, but sometimes it helps finding the issue.

itay
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Hi,

Are you refering to the Top10NL downloads from PDOK? if so I just pointed the GML reader and top10nl reader to it and all is working fine for the selected grid (470). Which grid are you selecting?

tim_wood
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I just had a similar problem caused by me updating the File Geodatabase name in a Writer. I obviously didn't do it quite right as it ended up like this:

"X:\\Folder With Space In\\output\\MyFGDB.gdb"""

Removing all the quotes and clicking OK fixed the problem - FME added a quote at each to encapsulate the path with a folder name that has spaces in it.

A minor complaint may be that FME should really be able to clean this issue up itself because you can't have double quotes in folder names in Windows. But maybe I don't know enough about the possible values for the Writer...

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