[thelist] XML madness

Peter Loron peterl at standingwave.org
Fri May 11 11:02:42 CDT 2007


You may have an embedded invisible character in there that IE is 
ignoring, but FF is choking on. You say you've checked the XML...have 
you done a diff that will catch control characters? Maybe diffed hex 
dumps of the files?

-Pete

Dan Parry wrote:
> I have 2 XML files each containing exactly the same data. I have a reload
> function for a designer that reads the image and string information and
> recreates the objects on the screen
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> In IE all is well and happiness is about the land (with none more surprised
> than me) yet in FF a weird thing happens. 1 file will read perfectly and
> recreate the object but the other will always fail saying the first
> childNode of the root element has no properties
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> I've double- and triple-checked the XML to make sure they are identical and
> they are. All that differs is the filename
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> I usually hammer on and figure these things out for myself but this one is
> getting me very frustrated very, very quickly
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> I can provide the XML or URLs should anyone need them
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> Cheers in advance
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> Dan
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