I recently migrated an ASP site from my dev machine to a live server. All the pages except my FAQ page works just fine, but my FAQ brings up:
XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://geniusupdate.com/GSHelp/faq.aspx
Line Number 1, Column 1:
The only changes I have made were changing the connection string on my SQL page from local to the string specified by my hosting service. Any tips on what I can do to find the root of this issue?
here is the source to my FAQ page:
<%@ Page Language="VB" MasterPageFile="~/theMaster.master" AutoEventWireup="false" CodeFile="faq.aspx.vb" Inherits="faq" Title="Untitled Page" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="sqlstuff" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="functions" %>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="page_title" ID="theTitle" runat="server">
FAQ</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="column1_title" ID="col1Title" runat="server">
<%=faqPageTitle(Request.QueryString("cid"))%></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="column1" ID="columnContent" runat="server">
<p>Click on a question to expand it to see the answer!</p>
<p><% If cID >= 0 Then
Dim theFaq As New List(Of faqContent), iterate As Integer = 0
theFaq = sqlStuff.getFaqs(cID)
For Each oFaq As faqContent In theFaq
Response.Output.WriteLine("<h4 id={0} class={1}>Q: {2}</h4>", _
addQuotes("gsSwitch{0}-title", iterate), _
addQuotes("handCursor"), _
oFaq.Content.Question)
Response.Output.WriteLine("<div id={0} class={1}><string>A: </strong>{2}</div>", _
addQuotes("gsSwitch{0}", iterate), _
addQuotes("gsSwitch"), _
oFaq.Content.Answer)
iterate += 1
Next
Else
Response.Output.Write("Here you can find a lot of information about eTHOMAS and how to expedite your office tasks.{0}", ControlChars.NewLine)
End If
%></p>
<script type="text/javascript">
var gsContent = new switchcontent("gsSwitch", "div")
var eID = '<%= expandID %>'
gsContent.collapsePrevious(true) // TRUE: only 1; FALSE: any number
gsContent.setPersist(false)
if(eID >= 0){
gsContent.defaultExpanded(eID) // opens the searched FAQ
document.getElementById('gsSwitch' + eID + '-title').scrollIntoView(true) // scrolls to selected FAQ
}
gsContent.init()
</script>
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="subcolumn_right_title" ID="rSideColTitle" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="subcolumn_right" ID="rSideColContent" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="subcolumn_left_title" ID="lSideColTitle" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="subcolumn_left" ID="lSideColContent" runat="server"></asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="sidecolumn_title" ID="sideColtitle" runat="server">
</asp:Content>
<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="sidecolumn" ID="sideCol" runat="server">
<% If cID >= 0 Then
Response.Write(constructFaqSideMenu(CInt(Request.QueryString("cid"))))
Else
Response.Write(constructFaqSideMenu())
End If
%>
</asp:Content>
I found this on another forum link:
Well, it appears it's a bit of both. The message is generated by Firefox, but caused by the framework. For some reason, .NET generates a response type of "application/xml" when it creates an empty page. Firefox parses the file as XML and finding no root element, spits out the error message.
IE does not render the page, period. This is where the XML is coming from.
Here is the constructFaqSideMenu() function:
Public Shared Function constructFaqSideMenu(ByVal oSelID As Integer) As String
Dim oCatList As New List(Of faqCategory)
Dim oRet As New StringBuilder
Dim iterate As Integer = 1, extraTag As String = ""
oCatList = sqlStuff.getFaqCats
oRet.AppendFormattedLine("<ul id={0}>", addQuotes("submenu"))
oRet.AppendFormattedLine(" <li id={0}>FAQ Categories</li>", addQuotes("title"))
For Each category As faqCategory In oCatList
If iterate = oSelID Then
extraTag = String.Format(" id={0}", addQuotes("active"))
Else
extraTag = ""
End If
oRet.AppendFormattedLine(" <li{0}><a href={1}>{2}</a></li>", extraTag, addQuotes("faq.aspx?cid={0}", iterate), StrConv(category.Title, VbStrConv.ProperCase))
iterate += 1
Next
oRet.AppendLine("</ul>")
Return oRet.ToString
End Function
And here is the source of the blank page IE returns:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>