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Re: Expected Whitespace error

From: Peter Flynn <peter.nosp@-.--------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 5/4/2007 11:55:00 PM

Andy wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> I am an XML novice andhave spent hours gtrying to debug this issue.
> Appreciate any help.
> 
> I get this error from Style STudio (and through IE and Firefox):
> 
> file:///c:/Documents and Settings/Andrew/My Documents/Squizzing/
> template2.xml:1,63: FATAL ERROR: Expected whitespace
> 
> This is the code I am using:
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

That's SGML (original HTML) not XML (XHTML). And it's invalid SGML too.
You need to convert it to well-formed XHTML before you can do anything 
with it using XML tools. Try running it through HTML Tidy first.

///Peter
-- 
XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/


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