Hi André,
You nailed it. My cgi program was creating the svg file and I forgot to
close the file handle. (facepalm)
Thanks for the help.
Bill
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 10:39 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
>
> Bill Nelson wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using the CGI.pm module to build a page that includes and embedded
>> svg image:
>> print "\n" . Tr(td({-rowspan=>$leaf_count, -height=>"100%",
>> -width=>"100%"}, "<embed src=\"$tree_file\" width=100% height =100%
>> type=\"image/svg+xml\">"), td(\...@data));
>>
>> This generates the expected html:
>>
>> <tr><td height="100%" rowspan="23" width="100%"><embed
>> src="/tmp/5357.tree.svg" width=100% height =100% type="image/svg+xml"></td>
>> ...
>>
>> however I get an xml parse error
>>
>
> where exactly are you "getting" this error ? in the browser calling up the
> page ?
>
>
>
> instead of my svg image:
>
>> XML Parsing Error: unclosed token
>> Location: http://localhost/tmp/1247.tree.svg
>> Line Number 59, Column 3:
>> <svg:line x1="100.000%" x2="1
>> ----------------^
>>
>> The line is intact in the svg/xml file:
>>
>> <svg:line x1="100.000%" x2="100.000%" y1="79.545%" y2="93.182%" />
>>
>> and if I paste the source html generated by the program into a file, the
>> page loads without error.
>>
>> Does anyone have an idea as to why the xml parse fails when the page is
>> generated, but not when it's static? (Or am I asking the wrong list?)
>>
>>
> On the face of it, CGI.pm (and your cgi program) only produce the html page
> which contains a *reference* to the svg file. It is the browser which then
> requests this svg file, separately, from the server.
> The problem you are having, then does not seem to have anything to do with
> CGI.pm or your cgi-bin program per se.
> Or, does the cgi-bin program also produce the svg file which the browser
> retrieves ?
> In that case, maybe creating this file is not finished by the time the
> browser requests it ?
>
>
>
