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Re: Problem with webobjects - tag occurred before another tag

Subject: Re: Problem with webobjects - tag occurred before another tag
From: Mersida Kurti <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:54:41 -0700 (PDT)

Hi all,

Here's an example of one of my html files

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
<HTML>
 <HEAD>
 <META NAME="generator" CONTENT="WebObjects 5.2">
 <TITLE>Add Products</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
 <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF">
 <WEBOBJECT NAME=Form1>
 <TABLE WIDTH="100%">
 <TR>
 <TD VALIGN=TOP>Create Products 
 Create Penn State Public Broadcasting products. 
 </TD>
 <TD ALIGN=RIGHT VALIGN=TOP><WEBOBJECT NAME=ActiveImage2></WEBOBJECT></TD>
 </TR>
 </TABLE><WEBOBJECT NAME=String5></WEBOBJECT> * <WEBOBJECT NAME=PopUpButton1></WEBOBJECT> <WEBOBJECT NAME=SubmitButton3></WEBOBJECT> <TABLE CELLSPACING=3 CELLPADDING=3 BORDER=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR VALIGN=TOP><TD>Areas of Interest <WEBOBJECT NAME=CheckBoxList1></WEBOBJECT></TD><TD>Audiences <WEBOBJECT NAME=CheckBoxList2></WEBOBJECT> Keywords Enter Keywords: <WEBOBJECT NAME=Text1></WEBOBJECT> <WEBOBJECT NAME=Conditional11>You must enter a valid URL, starting with either "http://" or "https://". </WEBOBJECT> * Product URL: <WEBOBJECT NAME=TextField3></WEBOBJECT> </TD></TR><TR VALIGN=TOP><TD>Product Id: <WEBOBJECT NAME=String1></WEBOBJECT> Location Code: <WEBOBJECT NAME=String4></WEBOBJECT> Location: <WEBOBJECT NAME=String2></WEBOBJECT> Course Key: <WEBOBJECT NAME=String3></WEBOBJECT></TD><TD COLSPAN=2>* Overriding Title: <WEBOBJECT NAME=TextField1></WEBOBJECT> * Overriding Description: (If length is more than 2048 characters, changes will not be saved.) <WEBOBJECT NAME=Text2></WEBOBJECT> <WEBOBJECT NAME=SubmitButton1></WEBOBJECT><WEBOBJECT NAME=SubmitButton2></WEBOBJECT></TR></TD></TABLE></WEBOBJECT>* Required Fields</BODY>
</HTML>

These are the error messages I see. If anyone has any idea what to do please let me know as I'm not really good at this stuff. Thank you in advace.

</TABLE> occurred before </TR>
</TR> occurred before 
</TR> occurred before 
</TABLE> occurred before </TR>

--- On Mon, 7/21/08, Gavin Eadie <email@hidden> wrote:

From: Gavin Eadie <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: Problem with webobjects - tag occurred before another tag
To: "Guido Neitzer" <email@hidden>
Cc: "Development WebObjects" <email@hidden>
Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 5:43 PM

On Jul 21, 2008, at 5:16 PM, Guido Neitzer wrote:

> On 21.07.2008, at 15:04, Lachlan Deck wrote:
>
>>> I have just switched my environment from 10.4 tiger with web  
>>> objects 5.2.4 to 10.5
 leopard (mac intel) with webobjects 5.4.2  
>>> and I'm getting a lot of tag errors such as </TABLE>
occurred  
>>> before </TR>, </TD> occurred before </FONT>,
</TR> occurred before  
>>> </WOB-Tokenizer> and so on...its is about 115 messages and
so hard  
>>> to fix because we use nested tags.  Does anyone know how to fix  
>>> these errors easily?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Try hitting cmd+shift+f in Eclipse component editor
>>
>> Uppercase tags (I think) are a thing of the past. 5.4.x, by  
>> default, requires xml compliant tags AFAIK
>
> No, only the WO 5.4 inline tag parser does. What he probably sees  
> are errors from the HTML
> validation. These should get fixed nevertheless. Things like this:
>
> <wo:if
 condition="$foo"><tr></wo:if>
>   ...
> <wo:if condition="$foo"></tr></wo:if>
>
> (Inline tags for better understanding) might work with the old-style  
> parser but will never work with inline bindings, either WOOgnl or WO  
> itself. It's just just bad style to write things like that. I fear,  
> Mersida meant that by "nested tags". Or, even worse, stuff like
that:
>
> <div class = "<webobject name=ClassString />">
>
> which are even uglier and should be forbidden by international  
> law ... And it's really not that hard to fix. Even for 115 error  
> messages - some of them might be fixed by just fixing ONE tag ...
>
> cug

... my experience was, with well over a thousand such complaints in an  
old application brought froward into the modern era, it only took a  
couple of hours to bring the count to
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