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XML Parsing Error: junk after document element. Rails builder

Answer 1

+1 A:

Turns out that what was happening is the Builder::XmlMarkup.new was being returned from the media_xml method

This caused any subsiquent calls on that object to add more tags instead of calling the function.

def media_xml 
    x = Builder::XmlMarkup.new
    x.instruct!
    x.declare! :DOCTYPE, :html, :PUBLIC, "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN", "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"
    x.options{
            x.videos{
                    for m in self.media
                            x.imageName("static-video-image.png", "target"=>"_self", "html"=>"", "flv"=> m.filename+".flv", "autoStart"=>"false")
                    end
            }
    }
    #x <= removing this fixed the problem
end

rube_noob 2009-09-10 19:01:22

Answer 2

A:

Hey, Thank you so much! Was having the same problem and was scratching my head trying to figure out what on earth is happening.

I had a simple function like this

def media_xml
  request =  Builder::XmlMarkup.new

  request.instruct! :xml, :version => "1.0", :encoding=>"UTF-8"

  request.favourites{
    request.food("banana") 
  }

  render :xml => media_xml
end

.. and it was giving that same stupid error. So after reading your post, i separated the xml builder to another function

def build_xml
  request =  Builder::XmlMarkup.new

  request.instruct! :xml, :version => "1.0", :encoding=>"UTF-8"

  request.favourites{
    request.food("banana") 
  }
end

As it turns out even if I put a single line at the end of the 'build_xml()' function like "return request", it will create an error because it tries to add that to the XML object.

Vicer 2010-06-04 02:09:44

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