I am working on a S1000D IPD DM entering part numbers for a parts list. I'm using Epic 5.3 on a Windows 7 machine. All is well until I get to a certain point in the file. I can add elements and save the file and Epic never complains, but as soon as I close the file and try to re-open it, I get the following two errors and then Epic quits.
[A17120] Assertion failed: size < TXF_MARK, file ..\src\stortxt.c, line 531
and then
epic:abort (signal 22)
If I use a text editor to open the xml file and truncate it down to a certain point (around item 104), I can reopen the file, but as soon as I try to add one more tag and save it, then the file is toast again. It's like I can only put in 104 of the 139 part numbers I need to type. Granted, there's a lot of tags involved with the IPD, but the file size is only 143kb.
Has anyone anyone seen this?
KM
I know the Epic version we're using is no longer supported so I doubt that PTC would help me out in this case. I traced the problem to the stylesheet for the IPD module. It extracts data from the parts list and appends it to an external file that is used to then generate the numerical and equipment designator cross-reference indexes for the pub.
The module I am working on is a circuit board listing and has several hundred - maybe more - parts and some of those have a hundred or more reference designators. I think the appended file was hitting some kind of limit. It looks like Epic recreates that external file every time you open the instance and when it got to a certain size it was causing the crash??
I ended up temporarily disabling the style sheet stuff for the indexing and was able to finish creating the xml file and compose it, but I need to find a fix for the underlying problem or write something else to extract the data.