Can't seem to make it work...

DGC · Post by **DGC** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 12:49 pm

So I got my website ready and everything looked fine on the "test site" located on my hard drive. I figured on just plugging that html into the index and daily templates, then correcting any broken links as I went. I can't seem to get it going though. I keep getting this error message after doing an update.

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

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End tag 'a' does not match the start tag 'img'. Error processing resource 'http://section3.keenspace.com/'. Line 97, Position 112

<img src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad8 ... z=468x60A/" border="0" alt="Click Here"></a>
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I know I fouled up somewhere, but I just can't pinpoint it. Like I said, everything looks fine on the home comp, but I didn't count on what I coded there messing with the stuff on keenspace.

Here's my indextemplate code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html lang="en" xml:lang="en"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
<title>***comic_name*** - ***todays_date***</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<link
rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
href="section3.css"
title="dark"
media="screen" />
</head>

<center>
<div class="keen_ad" style="display:inline;">
***advertisement***
</div>
</center>

<div class="main">
<div class="headerbanner">
</div>


<div class=navigator>
<a class=nav href="/about.html">
The History of X-4/3
</a>
<a class=nav href="/archive.html">
The Archives
</a>
<a class=nav href="/cast.html">
NOC List (cast)
<a class=nav href="/sketches.html">
Development
</a>
<a class=nav href="/links.html">
Exit Links
</a>
</div>


<div class=content01>
<center>
<div class=header>
The latest from H.Q.
</center>
</div>

<br>

<div class=header>
***todays_date***
</div>

</br>

***todays_comics***

<br />
<center>
***first_day*** ***previous_day*** ***next_day*** ***last_day***
</center>
<br />
</div>

<div class=footer>

War · Post by **War** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 3:37 pm

By the looks of it, it's not your site, it's the burstnet adverts code which is put on your page by the advertisment tag.

DGC · Post by **DGC** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 4:16 pm

Well, I ran both my .css and .html through w3's validators. Fixed all errors that they detected. Still a no go. I was considering that maybe it's the burstnet thing too, but it seems to have not affected other comics I read. There's also a possibility that I'm coming in at a bad time with the server switch and all. Think I'll just sleep on this one for now. Code drives me batty.

Faub · Post by **Faub** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 7:46 pm

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<noscript><a href="http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad8223a-map.cgi/ns/v=1.0J/sz=468x60A/" target="_top">
<img src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad8223a.cgi/ns/v=1.0J/sz=468x60A/" border="0" alt="Click Here"></a> 
</noscript>

Here's the culprit. Apparently, whoever is making this banner ad code doesn't know XHTML or simply refuses to use it. Notice the img tag is not closed.

Post by **Kisai** » Thu Feb 12, 2004 9:22 pm

I tried to "fix" the ad code, did I miss something, let me see...

Omegaboot · Post by **Omegaboot** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:04 pm

faub wrote:
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<noscript><a href="http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad8223a-map.cgi/ns/v=1.0J/sz=468x60A/" target="_top">
<img src="http://www.burstnet.com/cgi-bin/ads/ad8223a.cgi/ns/v=1.0J/sz=468x60A/" border="0" alt="Click Here"></a> 
</noscript>
Here's the culprit. Apparently, whoever is making this banner ad code doesn't know XHTML or simply refuses to use it. Notice the img tag is not closed.

Far as I see, it is closed, you just have to follow it through three lines.

Edit: oops, forgot. should be a </img> in there.

Post by **Kisai** » Fri Feb 13, 2004 8:07 pm

just before I fixed it, it wasn't putting in the />

IMG tags are <img src="" /> not <img src=""></img>

DGC · Post by **DGC** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 2:38 am

Hey, it works! This whole time, I've been running validators and stuff thinking I messed something up. On the bright side, I guess it was high time I fixed up some of my sloppy code anyway. Thank you, Kisai and Faub.