Re: [idvusers] XML parse errors from catalogs

• To: Jeff McWhirter <jeffmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [idvusers] XML parse errors from catalogs
• From: Tod Hagan <tod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:45:11 -0400

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 14:23 -0600, Jeff McWhirter wrote:
> >
> > Second, browsing THREDDS catalogs is hampered by the number of parse
> > errors that are encountered, using both versions 2.3 and 2.5 of IDV. A
> > couple of examples:
> >
> >         Expanding xlink 
> > node:http://lead.unidata.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/topcatalog.html
> >         Error parsing xml: 
> > http://lead.unidata.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/topcatalog.html
> >         The declaration for the entity "HTML.Version" must
> >          end with '>'.
> >         The declaration for the entity "HTML.Version" must
> >          end with '>'. line:31 column:3
> >
> >   
> Tod,
> 
> Those links are to the html versions of the catalog. The IDV needs the xml:
> http://lead.unidata.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/topcatalog.xml
> 
> -Jeff

Jeff,

Thanks for confirming XML should be used. I thought I had seen parse
errors with XML catalogs, but the errors I listed clearly involved the
HTML versions.

Tod

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Tod Hagan
Information Technologist
AIRMAP/Climate Change Research Center
Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space
University of New Hampshire
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: 603-862-3116

• References:
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    • From: Tod Hagan
  • Re: [idvusers] ISCCP DX netCDF files in IDV? Also, XML parse errors from catalogs
    • From: Jeff McWhirter