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electrikmilk
electrikmilk

Reputation: 1043

XML Error: Extra content at the end of the document

This is the XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<document>
<name>Sample Document</name>
<type>document</type>
<url>http://nsc-component.webs.com/Office/Editor/new-doc.html?docname=New+Document&amp;titletype=Title&amp;fontsize=9&amp;fontface=Arial&amp;spacing=1.0&amp;text=&amp;wordcount3=0</url>
</document>

<document>
<name>Sample</name>
<type>document</type>
<url>http://nsc-component.webs.com/Office/Editor/new-doc.html?docname=New+Document&amp;titletype=Title&amp;fontsize=9&amp;fontface=Arial&amp;spacing=1.0&amp;text=&amp;</url>
</document>

When I open it it says: This page contains the following errors: error on line 8 at column 1: Extra content at the end of the document

But when there is only this:

<document>
<name>Sample</name>
<type>document</type>
<url>http://nsc-component.webs.com/Office/Editor/new-doc.html?docname=New+Document&amp;titletype=Title&amp;fontsize=9&amp;fontface=Arial&amp;spacing=1.0&amp;text=&amp;</url>
</document>

Why is it saying this when there is two?

Upvotes: 50

Views: 198547

Answers (3)

Mark
Mark

Reputation: 11

I also had this error when quotes around text (like version and encoding) were curly quotes, not straight quotes.

Upvotes: 0

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 3393

I've found that this error is also generated if the document is empty. In this case it's also because there is no root element - but the error message "Extra content and the end of the document" is misleading in this situation.

Upvotes: 6

Lotok
Lotok

Reputation: 4607

You need a root node

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>    
<documents>
    <document>
        <name>Sample Document</name>
        <type>document</type>
        <url>http://nsc-component.webs.com/Office/Editor/new-doc.html?docname=New+Document&amp;titletype=Title&amp;fontsize=9&amp;fontface=Arial&amp;spacing=1.0&amp;text=&amp;wordcount3=0</url>
    </document>

    <document>
        <name>Sample</name>
        <type>document</type>
        <url>http://nsc-component.webs.com/Office/Editor/new-doc.html?docname=New+Document&amp;titletype=Title&amp;fontsize=9&amp;fontface=Arial&amp;spacing=1.0&amp;text=&amp;</url>
    </document>
</documents>

Upvotes: 89

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