XML and Yahoo Question

General
#1

Hi,

Yahoo includes the XML file Harley sends with my turn as text in the body of the email message. PDF comes as an attachment.

Does anybody know how to make yahoo mail not do this? Or how to cut/paste the text into a proper XML file that automagic can read and import?

thanks,

Adam

#2

I don’t use Yahoo, but from all previous discussions, you can’t get Yahoo to not do this. There are a couple of methods people use to make it work, though.

  1. Forward your mail to a different service provider, then get the attachment from that server. Hotmail apparently keeps the attachment separate.

  2. Some people have had success by copying the text starting from <METurn… onwards and pasting it into a word processor that can do global find/replace. They then remove all the ‘hard returns’ (shown as paragraph marks under special-format). You’ll need to save the file as a plain text file.

Note that if you use option #2, you may not be able to utilize the economy calculator, since it actually needs a ‘hard return’ just prior to the economy section.

Mike Mulka

#3

I’ve been able to simply copy from the <meturn… and then paste into Notepad and simply save with the xml tag. Worked fine.

#4

Yes that works 99% of the time. There’s one I came across recently that couldn’t get this solution to work on but I have asked the MEPalantir group to check it out for me.

Clint

#5

If you try the above Notepad method, save it as a .xml extension the first time you save it. Renaming it later seems to prevent it from being recognized as XML.

The first method works fine with Hotmail – I set up a dummy account and fwd my turns there.

The second method, which I used to do, works great with Word.

#6

Yahoo users; instructions for saving XML files.

  1. Open a New text document by right clicking whichever folder I want it in.
  2. Highlight the text in the email using cursor from <meturn> through to </meturn>.
  3. Right click COPY
  4. Right Click or File-Paste to the New text document.
  5. Save as filename.xml and ensure files of Type is selected as “All files”. This will give you a file that you can then use in Automagic and MEOW. Eg g220n16t010.xml or g052n03t000.xml.

The above should cover 99% of the problems. Sometimes you need to remove the hard returns that Yahoo puts into the text. To do this do a find and replace for the hard return. We’ve found that has solved the other 1% so far.

Thanks
Clint

#7

I think the easiest way is to pay $10.00 per year to have the ability to receive your Yahoo mail on either your Outlook or Outlook express.

Just my 2 cents.

Scott

#8

Originally posted by SMoyes
I think the easiest way is to pay $10.00 per year to have the ability to receive your Yahoo mail on either your Outlook or Outlook express.

Bear in mind, as his avatar shows, that Scott is a sun-loving, devil-may-care hedonist looking for the easy path. Frugal, Northern types may prefer to work to get their XML files.