InfoPath Dev

I'm doing some re-work in InfoPath 2007 of an existing form made with InfoPath 2007.  I rearranged some bindings in / out of optional & repeating groups, and copied some of the controls to a new view.  When finished, everything worked fine in preview mode (all controls; all views), and the logic checker showed no errors.  I saved the file.

Now when I attempt to open the .xsn file using "Design" command to access it, I get the following message: 

InfoPath has encountered an error.  The operation failed. 

 The form will then not open up in design mode.

 If I use the "Open" command as if to fill out the form, it opens fine.  However, when I attempt to access the new view, I get the following error message:

Some rules were not applied.

InfoPath cannot open the view. The form definition (.xsf) file has an error on the following element or attribute:  xsf:xmlToEdit

Error: the following attribute is incorrect: container in the xmlToEdit element with name = "group339_47"

The view does not open, but all the other views work fine.

 Is there a "back door" way to get to the design view to either erase the view, or delete the controls + bindings that appear to be causing the problem?

Hi,

Open the .xsf file in any editor. Search for ‘group339_47' and try to verify the xmlToEdit element. Is it same as the other fields or not.

Note: Make sure to have a back up file before  doing this.

I'm not a programmer.  How can I access the .xsf file?  In design mode, I know you can "save to source files" and it breaks the .xsn into all of its elements...but as stated, I can't get into design mode.  After locating the .xsf, can I use MS NotePad to open .xsf?

Thanks.

Great...how can I extract the .xsf file?  Remember, it is not letting me open the file in Design Mode; so I can't use the "Save as Source Files" command.  Is there another way to extract?

Ok; I finally got into my .xsf file.  One line containing the "group339_47" is posted below and shows suspect characters at the end of the line.  Does the presence of the strange characters at the end of the line indicate an error?

 <xsf:xmlToEdit name="group339_47" item="/my:myFields/my:OG-TestFacReq-ReflctvtyAbsrptn/my:OG-TestFacReq-ReflctvtyAbsrptn-BySrfce" container="/my:myFields/my:OG-TestFacReq-ReflctvtyAbsrptn/my:䯌ы갴À蛤ÀᚼÀ馄т馄т䟜ы">     

The XPath in the container attribute has some invalid characters. Make sure that XPath is correct.