For some reason, the index.html file is not valid XML. What development tool/environment are you using? What character encoding are you using (UTF-8 is the preferred encoding)?
Please attach the failing file to your response so that I can see the exact problem. On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Stefan Scott <stefanscottal...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Hi - > > On page 14 of the ToDo tutorial here: > > > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb/browse_thread/thread/0d99974c622262d5# > > after I edit the file 'src/main/webapp/index.html' so that it now > reads: > > <lift:surround with="default" at="content"> > <lift:Util.out>Please > <lift:menu.item name="Login">Log In</lift:menu.item> > </lift:Util.out> > </lift:surround> > > and I stop jetty (Ctl-C) and then recompile/restart with 'mvn > jetty:run'... > > I get the following error in the browser on the first screen: > > ======================================================== > XML Parsing Error: syntax error > Location: http://localhost:8080/ > Line Number 4, Column 1:Please > ======================================================== > > > If I remove the word "Please" from that file, I get a different error: > > ======================================================== > This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated > with it. > The document tree is shown below. > > <a href="/user_mgt/login">Please Log In</a> > ======================================================== > > > If I replace my '~\jetty\webapps\todo' directory with the *completed* > todo.tgz archive supplied with the tutorial (thereby skipping ahead a > few steps in the tutorial) and recompile/restart, it works fine. But > if I create these steps myself, I keep getting these XML errors. > > Any suggestions? Am I missing a file somewhere? > > Thanks! > > - Stefan Scott > > > > > > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Git some: http://github.com/dpp --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to liftweb@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---