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• Version 2 of the single ILR specification (16 posts)

• Selvy said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Hello all

  Please note that version 2 of the single ILR specification and other associated documents are now available on our website (http://www.theia.org.uk/ilr/ilrdocuments/201112_ilrdetail.htm )

  You are welcome to post your comments on these documents on this forum.

  Selvy

• Selvy said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Just a quick update…. There was an issue with the published Version 2 schema and it is currently unavailable.

  Selvy

• said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  hi selvey – what was wrong with it? when will the new one be ready to download?

  ta!

• Selvy said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Hi Jake

  It will be available to download later today or tomorrow.

  Selvy

• martinwest said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Ok how do you unzip this ?
  Tried windows 7, ultimate, XP and winZip but all return same error – unable to unzip files (unknown method)

  Martin

• Selvy said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Hi Martin

  We managed to open the zipped files. Not sure why you cannot.

  Selvy

• said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  nope – i cannot either – exactly the same message

  windows xp using winzip and winrar etc – think it needs re-zipping and reposting

• Selvy said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Okay – we will investigate at this end and come back to you.

  Selvy

• martinwest said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Selvy

  It seems that the compression method used is not compatible with windows or WinZip 3.9.
  A Workaround is to use 7 Zip.

  Martin

• Anna said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Hi all

  Apologies for this – we're aiming to get it re-zipped to be backwards compatible and uploaded tomorrow. I'll post a message on here once this has been done.

  Anna

• Anna said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Hello, me again

  We've managed to get the re-zipped version up on the website today – it is published as version 2.2 on the usual ILR Documents page (http://www.theia.org.uk/ilr/ilrdocuments/201112_ilrdetail.htm).

  Please let us know if you are still getting problems with this.

  Anna

• martinwest said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Anna,
  No problem now – 2.2 is OK with windows and WniZip,

  Martin

• Gary Townsend said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  I am receiving element is invalid messages where the email address contains an underscore:

  'http://www.theia.org.uk/ILR/2011-12/1:Email' element is invalid – The value 'test_user_account@hotmail.com' is invalid according to its datatype 'http://www.theia.org.uk/ILR/2011-12/1:EmailType' – The Pattern constraint failed.

  Is this a known issue, or a new issue?

  Regards,
  Gary.

• martinwest said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Gary
  This is due to the restricted pattern type for the email address in commom_Types.xsd which does not reflect all the allowed characters in the ILR specifications for an email address but I have not had a problem with this yet as no current learners have an underscore in their email address.

  Regards

• said 1 year, 1 month ago:

  Had not expected 'underscore' to be used in an email address, the common_types.xsd has the following string pattern defined as "" which allows Uppercase and lowercase alpha characters, numbers, @, fullstops and hyphens as valid characters only.

  Looking at the requirements in the ILR Spec, the only validation is about having an @ and fullstop separators.
  Googling Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Invalid_email_addresses
  There is a lot more valid characters that could be used in an email address, though as noted Hotmail has it's own restrictions on what it will allow.

  If the group finds more Valid Email Addresses formats that the XSD fails – will need to consider relaxing the pattern validation in the XSD.