Remove invalid XML characters

[Yuri05]

If the name or description name for any entity (building block, parameter, container, ...) contains control characters 0x01 .. 0x08 or 0x0E .. 0x1F - the project cannot be opened anymore, because those characters are invalid in XML.

Invalid control characters

To avoid this: prohibit usage of these characters in any user editable text fields (names, descriptions, value origins, ...)

Another possibility to create a non-readable project is importing of observed data, when those characters are contained somewhere in the text. E.g. import observed data from the file attached (make sure the column Study Id is mapped) BS_Group.xlsx

Import mapping

Save the project and reopen it: the same error message as in Open-Systems-Pharmacology/MoBi#1794 comes.

So here I would also prohibit importing of such data.

[PavelBal]

What, the user cannot use emojis in the simulation name?? 🤕

Jokes aside, I wouldn't even know how to input these codes?

[Yuri05]

What, the user cannot use emojis in the simulation name?? 🤕

You can :)

Jokes aside, I wouldn't even know how to input these codes?

I didn't know it as well... till now 🤣