yes, this is what I see in the registry:<br /><span class="Code">##<br />## s-attributes
(structural markup)<br />##<br /><br /># &lt;name&gt; ... &lt;/name&gt;<br />STRUCTURE name<br
/><br /># &lt;lang&gt; ... &lt;/lang&gt;<br />STRUCTURE lang<br /><br /># &lt;season&gt; ...
&lt;/season&gt;<br />STRUCTURE season<br /><br /># &lt;text id=&quot;..&quot;&gt; ...
&lt;/text&gt;<br /># (no recursive embedding allowed)<br />STRUCTURE text<br />STRUCTURE
text_id&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #
[annotations]<br /></span><br />I didn't know if I should ad the &quot;id&quot; attribute
also....<br />anyway, I still get:<br />
<table width="100%" class="concordtable">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <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>
thanks<br /><br />On Sat, December 28, 2013 18:06, Hardie, Andrew wrote:<br /> <!-- begin
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<div class="bodyclass"> That function reads the list of attributes straight from the registry
file. Can you please check in the registry file that the s-attributes really have been indexed
as per your expectations?
<div><br /> </div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div><br /> </div>
<div>Andrew.</div>
<div><br /> </div>
<br /> <br /> <br /> Andres Chandia  wrote:<br /> <br /> <br />
<div>Ok, I managed using A, but for B this is what I get :<br />
<table width="100%" class="concordtable">
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <th class="concordtable">My metadata is embedded in the XML of my corpus!</th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td align="center" class="concordgrey" colspan="5"> <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 /><style type="text/css"> ->
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<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D">Hi Andres,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<p style="text-indent:-18.0pt" class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"><span style="">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" class="MsoListParagraph"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"><span style="">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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D">best</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D">Andrew.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:&quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color:#1F497D"></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p>
<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 />
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