I think we should probably just say it was a database error and leave it at that! In all seriousness... adapting DNA to allow it to offer blog comments has been a big job, and it's fair to say that it's thrown up some things that we hadn't foreseen. The team who manage the DNA service have done an absolutely sterling job facilitating it all, and designing the functionality we needed. Fast responses to a problem like this morning's is one example of that. Aaron
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 15 May 2008 14:50 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server? Thanks Aaron, You guys fixed it fast! It takes me ages to fix and debug code. As an aside, what caused the problem? thanks, Vijay. On 15/05/2008, Aaron Scullion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for this. The DNA team are aware, and are trying to fix right now. We're also trying to make these error messages less verbose, for obvious reasons... Aaron (Product manager, BBC blogs) ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of vijay chopra Sent: 15 May 2008 12:20 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Who spilled coffee on the server? On the subject of things at the Beeb, someone broke Justin Webb's blog: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/justinwebb/ There's a big red server Error message behind the blog entries, and all the comments have disappeared (it's been like this from at least sometime yesterday) If you're fast enough pressing your browsers stop button, you can see the full message, stack trace and all. Here are the full details for anyone who knows DNA well enough to fix it: Server Error in '/DNA/DNAPAGES' Application. ________________________________ '<', hexadecimal value 0x3C, is an invalid attribute character. Line 1, position 20. Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code. Exception Details: System.Xml.XmlException: '<', hexadecimal value 0x3C, is an invalid attribute character. Line 1, position 20. Source Error: An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below. Stack Trace: [XmlException: '<', hexadecimal value 0x3C, is an invalid attribute character. Line 1, position 20.] System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e) +87 System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args) +77 System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Int32 pos, String res, String[] args) +18 System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributeValueSlow(Int32 curPos, Char quoteChar, NodeData attr) +629 System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributes() +867 System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement() +545 System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent() +461 System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read() +26 System.Xml.XmlLoader.LoadNode(Boolean skipOverWhitespace) +435 System.Xml.XmlLoader.ParsePartialContent(XmlNode parentNode, String innerxmltext, XmlNodeType nt) +200 System.Xml.XmlElement.set_InnerXml(String value) +37 BBC.Dna.ForumPost.AddPostXml(IDnaDataReader reader, DnaComponent component, XmlNode parentNode, IInputContext context) +2375 BBC.Dna.RecentCommentForumPostsBuilder.BuildRecentCommentsXml(IDnaDataRe ader dataReader) +128 BBC.Dna.RecentCommentForumPostsBuilder.TryGetRecentCommentForumPosts() +201 BBC.Dna.BlogSummary.ProcessRequest() +178 BBC.Dna.Component.WholePage.ProcessRequest() +82 BBC.Dna.Page.DnaBasePage.DoPageLoad() +663 BBC.Dna.Page.DnaBasePage.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +146 BBC.Dna.Page.DnaWebPage.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +20 System.Web.Util.CalliHelper.EventArgFunctionCaller(IntPtr fp, Object o, Object t, EventArgs e) +15 System.Web.Util.CalliEventHandlerDelegateProxy.Callback(Object sender, EventArgs e) +34 System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +99 System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47 System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1061 ________________________________ Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.832; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.832
