View source does not show anything below the content inside that XML. For example, I have a layout.html with the standard {{include}} {{ include footer.html}} etc.
The place where I have this XML element fall within the view that's extending this layout. So no matter what, there should be a footer at the very least. There's none. Even after the XML I have HTML within that view that no longer exists in source. The new source just ends after the content of blog.body like web2py no longer recognizes anything else. That's why I added in the {{pass}} trying to force web2py to stop whatever it is doing to ignore the rest of the HTML. There is no </html> since the data being called inside the blog.body is just a field from the db. I know I could have put a </html> in the field or in the included view it's calling but I double checked after reading your comment and there is none. All that html after the snippet is just like Keyser Soze. --