Description

Pasting directly from MS Word into a MoinMoin page in GUI mode causes an error.

Steps to reproduce

1. Copy the text from the attached MS Word file ExpatErrorSourceText.doc

2. edit a MoinMoin page in GUI mode

3. paste
4. hit Preview

5. You get: ExpatError: unbound prefix: line 376, column 894

ExpatErrorSourceText.doc

Example

Details

traceback.html

Python Version

• 2.4.2 (#2, Sep 30 2005, 21:19:01) [GCC 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu8)]

MoinMoin Version

• Release 1.5.2 [Revision release]

Editing done from a Windows XP machine, with a FireFox 1.0.7 browser.

Duplicated error using Internet Explorer 6.0.2. Except that, when I try to paste, IE asks me if I want to clean the text, because it comes from Word (!). The error occurs whether you say Yes or cancel.

Contact me: 1davide at att dot net, Davide Andrea

Workaround

• Use the Paste From Word utility (2nd icon from the left in the row of GUI icons, at the top).

  • if this works, you are just using it wrong. guess why there is such a functionality...

    • Granted. But "you are using in wrong" is not an acceptable excuse for an application that allows the user to "use it wrong". The user may not know about a special tool to paste from MSWord -- I didn't. And the application doesn't prevent the user from pasting the normal way, which is obviously the only way a user knows how to paste. I would suppose that the correct approach should be for the application to be smart enough to know how to paste, regardless of the source of the clipboard contents.

      • Moin has no influence at all on the copy & paste stuff. Maybe as Fred from FCKeditor if he can do something about that.

• Use text mode instead of GUI mode when pasting text from MS Word.

Discussion

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