XML <downloadedmetar1humi> bug

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Hi,

There seems to be a problem with the XML tags. Not just METAR 1 but I presume all of them. I have 5 and they all exhibit the same problem.

The problem is that in this particlar tag the percentage sign is included (or is not escaped) and as far as I know the percentage sign is a reserved/special character in XML and can not be used.

When I use Microsoft’s XML parser to get to the information I end up with:

Microsoft VBScript runtime error ‘800a01a8’

Object required: ‘[object]’

/weather/index.html, line 149

and when I load the XML file in IE I get:

XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

End tag ‘PARAM’ does not match the start tag ‘downloadedmetar5humi’. Error processing resource 'file:///C:/wdisplay/webfile…

I’m sure the problem would be remedied by just removing the percentage sign.

I’m using 10.18c nd this has been going on since about 10.12, just never had the time to report the problem!! Sorry!

Thanks Craig

2

Actually, on further research the problem is not related to the percentage sign.

The problem seems to be that the “less than” sign is missing from the closing tag on and

Since I only have 5 METAR downloads I don’t know if the problem exists on METAR 6 - 50.

Here is a sample of the resulting XML file:

64%
39%/downloadedmetar4humi>
82%/downloadedmetar5humi>

The template xml file looks like this:

%downloadedmetar3humi%
%downloadedmetar4humi%
%downloadedmetar5humi%

Thanks
Craig

3

hi
ok, i have it stripped out now, if its the last chanacter
in a new 10.18c zip version, ready in an hour or less
try that

4

Hi,

Actually it seems that the problem is not with the percentage sign.

5

hi,ok, i must be stripping off something else too much
will investigate and fix

6

uploading a fix now as a new 10.18i

7

Thanks, works perfectly now!