Ok, I managed using A, but for B this is what I get :<br />
<table width="100%" class="concordtable">
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            <th class="concordtable">My metadata is embedded in the XML of my corpus!</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="center" colspan="5" class="concordgrey">                                                 &nbsp;<br />                                                 No
XML annotations found for this corpus.                                                 </td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
</table>
<br />and I have indexed all the text attibutes as if they were s-attributes<br /><br /><br
/>On Sat, December 28, 2013 03:40, Hardie, Andrew wrote:<br /> <!-- begin sanitized html -->  
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Andres,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">What
you are doing wrong, it would seem, is re-using the source data file as the input file for the
metadata. This is not how it works.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">There
are two ways to add metadata:</span></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">A.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">   
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">From
a tab-delimited table file, with one text per line, and fields in columns.  <em>This is the
function you are using, and it is resulting in an  error message because you are feeding back
in the original vertical file, which is not in the expected format</em>.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1" class="MsoListParagraph"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">B.<span style="font:7.0pt &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">   
</span></span></span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">From
XML in the original data. <em>This is what you want to do</em>, but in order to do it you need
to (a) have indexed all the attributes on the text element as s-attributes, (b) use the
function labelled &ldquo;Create metadata table from corpus XML annotations&rdquo; &ndash;
accessed via the button low down  on the screen labelled &ldquo;My metadata is embedded in the
XML of my corpus!&rdquo; &ndash; instead of the standard function. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Hope
that clarifies.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Andrew.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span lang="EN-US"
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></strong><span
lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
Andres Chandia [mailto:andres@chandia.net] <br /> <strong>Sent:</strong> 27 December 2013
14:45<br /> <strong>To:</strong> Hardie, Andrew<br /> <strong>Cc:</strong> Open source
development of the Corpus WorkBench<br /> <strong>Subject:</strong> problem at managing corpus
metadata</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi there, so long...<br /> <br /> I have indexed a test corpus and now
I'm trying to add some metadata to it but I always got error messages:<br /> <br /> this is
what you can find at corpus:<br /> <span class="code"></span><br /> <span class="code"><s
id="&quot;1&quot;"></s></span><s id="&quot;1&quot;"><br /> <span class="code">Almosnino      
almosnino       NCMS000</span><br /> <span class="code">,       ,       Fc</span><br /> <span
class="code">Moshe   moshe   NCFS000</span><br /> <span class="code">.       .      
Fp</span><br /> <span class="code">.       .       Fp</span><br /> <span
class="code"></span></s><br /> <span class="code"><s id="&quot;2&quot;"></s></span><s
id="&quot;2&quot;"><br /> <span class="code">Regimiento      regimiento      NCMS000</span><br
/> <span class="code">de      de      SPS00</span><br /> <span class="code">la      el     
DA0FS0</span><br /> <span class="code">vida    vida    NCFS000</span><br /> <span
class="code">.       .       Fp</span><br /> <span class="code">.       .       Fp</span><br
/> <span class="code"></span></s><br /> <span class="code"><s id="&quot;3&quot;"></s></span><s
id="&quot;3&quot;"><br /> <span class="code">Sal&oacute;nica        sal&oacute;nica       
NCFS000</span><br /> <span class="code">1564    1564    Z</span><br /> <span
class="code">Transcription   transcription   NCFS000</span><br /> <span class="code">.       .
      Fp</span><br /> <span class="code">.       .       Fp</span><br /> <span
class="code"></span></s><br /> <span class="code"></span><br /> <br /> I add an image of the
settings that I use to install metadata<br /> <br /> and this is what I always got:<br /> <br
/> <span class="code">CQPweb encountered an error and could not continue. The data source you
specified for the text metadata contains badly-formatted text ID codes, as follows: ','; '.';
''; ''; ''; ''; ''; ' CQPweb v3.0.7 &copy; 2008-2012 Corpus and tagset help You  are logged in
as user [admin] </span><br /> <br /> but as you can see at the corpus above none of the
metadatas contains what the error message says....<br /> <br /> well, I don't know what I'm
doing wrong, thanks in advance for your help....<br /> <br /> _______________________<br />   
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