"XML page cannot be displayed" error

ColdFront77 · #1 Postby **ColdFront77** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 5:50 pm

The "XML page cannot be displayed" error inflates views if you continously refresh threads. I have heavily inflated them in a couple threads in the several minutes because of this problem.

mf_dolphin · #2 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:03 pm

Can we try this one again? I have no idea what you mean by "inflates views". :-(

#3 Postby **cycloneye** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:04 pm

My thread at greetings about congrating Tom has had over 80 views in less than 10 minutes.Marshall,chad,ticka what is that inflating views all about?

weatherlover427 · #4 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:06 pm

Tom said he had to refresh several times before the page came up because he kept getting a "The XML page cannot be displayed" error.

chadtm80 · #5 Postby **chadtm80** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:18 pm

Alright.. Thanks for letting us know.. Not realy hurting anything by the number of views going up.. Still working on the xml page part.

mf_dolphin · #6 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:22 pm

Every refresh will cause the page views to increase. So that's normal. The "XML page cannot be displayed" error is not part of the board because we don't use XML we use PHP unless it's just a bug in IE. I did a search on Microsoft's Support Site and found nothing either....

weatherlover427 · #7 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:24 pm

The first 3 lines of this page's source 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 xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr">

That looks like you do to me, FYI.

#8 Postby **cycloneye** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:25 pm

Ok guys thanks for the explanation about it.

ColdFront77 · #9 Postby **ColdFront77** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 6:59 pm

Sorry Marshall. I am using the word "inflated" in terms of the number of views jumping up higher than they should be when continually refreshing the page to try to access the thread.

I thought I would kindly explain why there are so many views on some threads.

Thanks.

mf_dolphin · #10 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:20 pm

thanks Tom! Joshua, on the XML you need to read the source a little further. The actual doc type is:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />

You may have put me on to something though. This isn't the identical issue but very close. :-)

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -us;329661

weatherlover427 · #11 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:25 pm

sorry, I'm kinda new at the HTML / PHP thing

but glad I could be of at least some assistance

mf_dolphin · #12 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:36 pm

It's a detective case. Every little bit of info helps! :-)

weatherlover427 · #13 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 7:39 pm

Could this be the same issue that causes the "No posts exist for this topic" bug in some threads? :-?

ColdFront77 · #14 Postby **ColdFront77** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 9:29 pm

You're welcome, Marshall and thank you, too.

I was getting the "No posts exist for this topic" bug in some threads recently, as well.

mf_dolphin · #15 Postby **mf_dolphin** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 9:30 pm

What's funnt/strange is that I;ve never seen either one of these messages in all the time I spend on the board... hmmmmmm

weatherlover427 · #16 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:39 pm

I'll take a screenshot of it next time I get it so you can see where I get it; then I'll detail how I got it.

chadtm80 · #17 Postby **chadtm80** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:42 pm

Thanks Josh :-)

weatherlover427 · #18 Postby **weatherlover427** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 10:43 pm

Glad to help

weatherlover427 · #19 Postby **weatherlover427** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 1:19 am

Just got this error myself for the first time...

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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A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=19990'. Line 18, Position 20

<td align="center" <a href="index.php"><img src="/Images/MsgBoard-header.png" border="0" alt="STORM2K.Org Forum Index" title="STORM2K.Org Forum Index" width="775" height="125" /></a></td>
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weatherlover427 · #20 Postby **weatherlover427** » Fri Dec 05, 2003 1:21 am

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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A name was started with an invalid character. Error processing resource 'http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=20322'. Line 18, Position 20

<td align="center" <a href="index.php"><img src="/Images/MsgBoard-header.png" border="0" alt="STORM2K.Org Forum Index" title="STORM2K.Org Forum Index" width="775" height="125" /></a></td>
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