<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><br></div><div>I imported a valid EAD file into ArchivesSpace. </div><div>Exporting to EAD again produced malformed xml. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The problem was with this fragment in the bioghist :</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><p></span><br>
<span style="color: #021da7"><blockquote></span><br>
<span style="color: #021da7"><p></span>"As a child, before I could read, I determined as I<br>
looked at my father's great books and saw how they<br>
interested him, to become an author and by the time I<br>
could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but<br>
in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into<br>
my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to<br>
read out of Routledge's little volume of <br>
Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly,<br>
something stirred me till I shuddered with intense<br>
excitement. "I felt as if a star had burst within my<br>
brain." I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could<br>
pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a<br>
poet!"<span style="color: #021da7"></p></span><br>
<span style="color: #021da7"></blockquote></span><br>
<span style="color: #021da7"></p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">The result looks fine in the admin display in both the Raw and Formatted views.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px;">But if I click on EDIT and look at the text, the implicit paragraph breaks are more visible. </div><div style="margin: 0px;">[ Text below with line numbers added to the front because I expect it’ll get wrapped by email. ] </div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0px;">(1)II</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(2)</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(3) John Henry Ingram was born on November 16, 1842, at 29 City Road, Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his childhood in Stoke Newington, the London suburb where young Poe had himself lived. The Stoke Newington Manor House School, which Poe describes in "William Wilson," was standing in Ingram's youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote an autobiographical account to Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(4)</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(5) <blockquote> "As a child, before I could read, I determined as I looked at my father's great books and saw how they interested him, to become an author and by the time I could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to read out of Routledge's little volume of Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly, something stirred me till I shuddered with intense excitement. "I felt as if a star had burst within my brain." I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a poet!"</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(6)</div><div style="margin: 0px;">(7)</blockquote> </div><div style="font-size: 15px;">(8)</div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px;">Those implicit paragraphs get inserted into the exported EAD.xml without regard of the existing <blockquote> element, </div><div style="font-size: 15px;">serializing it as malformed : <p><blockqoute></p><p></blockquote></p></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 15px;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><p></span> II<span style="color: #021da7"></p><p></span> John Henry Ingram was born on November 16, 1842, at 29 City Road, Finnsbury, Middlesex, and spent his childhood in Stoke Newington, the London suburb where young Poe had himself lived. The Stoke Newington Manor House School, which Poe describes in "William Wilson," was standing in Ingram's youth, and he was quite conscious of it as a tangible link between his own life and Poe's. On March 6, l874, Ingram wrote an autobiographical account to Sarah Helen Whitman, clearly acknowledging Poe's influence on his early life:<span style="color: #021da7"></p><p></span> <span style="color: #021da7"><blockquote></span> "As a child, before I could read, I determined as I looked at my father's great books and saw how they interested him, to become an author and by the time I could spell words of one syllable I began to write, but in prose. One night when I was still a boy I went into my own room, and for the five-hundreth time, began to read out of Routledge's little volume of Edgar Poe's poems. Suddenly, something stirred me till I shuddered with intense excitement. "I felt as if a star had burst within my brain." I fell on my knees and prayed as I only could pray then, and thanked my Creator for having made me a poet!"<span style="color: #021da7"></p><p></span> <span style="color: #021da7"></blockquote></span> <span style="color: #021da7"></p><p></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #021da7"><br></span></div></div></div></body></html>