My first attempts at EJS programming produced files with a .XML suffix. I have now written a slightly more complex program which EJS stores with a .ejs suffix; why ? Further, if I change the suffix to .xml, EJS opens the file in the Win notebook and shows unformatted xml ??
another question: I don't understand how I can choose files to be exported as HTML.
Thank you in advance for your time and help JP Grivet
this is not an answer but a similar query. I am also new, just trying to run the three trace plot shown as an example in the wiki. My file is titled "test 4.ejs" and won't run giving a "unknown source error" Changing the extention to xml gives similar strange results as listed by Jean-Phillipe
> Re: file naming convention > > My first attempts at EJS programming produced files > with a .XML suffix. I have now written a slightly > more complex program which EJS stores with a .ejs > suffix; why ? Further, if I change the suffix to .xml, > EJS opens the file in the Win notebook and shows unformatted > xml ?? > > another question: I don't understand how I > can choose files to be exported as HTML. > > Thank you > in advance for your time and help > JP Grivet
Please, upload your file to this discussion or send it to me at fem@um.es, so that I can see what the problem is. I guess this is not a problem of the extension, but something else.
EJS changed to the .ejs extension to distinguish old XML files from new XML files. The only (but big) difference is that the .ejs files are saved using UTF 16 encoding format (instead of the previously unspecified encoding). This change respects mainly special characters in different languages, particularly if you switch from a Windows to a Mac computer, or viceversa.
EJS understands now any of the two files, each with its corresponding encoding. You need to do nothing for EJS to select the right encoding.
What you should NOT do is to change the extension to an .ejs file into .xml, because, then, you are fooling EJS by telling it a UTF16 file is not a UTF16 file. This confuses EJS, and when EJS does not understand a file, it passes it over to your default editing tool in the OS. (Notebook in your case.)
Again, respect the original extension of an EJS file that you get from someone else, and let EJS save its files in the suggested .ejs format. There is no reason why you would ant to change the extension to an EJS file.
