• Which the release of FS2020 we see an explosition of activity on the forun and of course we are very happy to see this. But having all questions about FS2020 in one forum becomes a bit messy. So therefore we would like to ask you all to use the following guidelines when posting your questions:

    • Tag FS2020 specific questions with the MSFS2020 tag.
    • Questions about making 3D assets can be posted in the 3D asset design forum. Either post them in the subforum of the modelling tool you use or in the general forum if they are general.
    • Questions about aircraft design can be posted in the Aircraft design forum
    • Questions about airport design can be posted in the FS2020 airport design forum. Once airport development tools have been updated for FS2020 you can post tool speciifc questions in the subforums of those tools as well of course.
    • Questions about terrain design can be posted in the FS2020 terrain design forum.
    • Questions about SimConnect can be posted in the SimConnect forum.

    Any other question that is not specific to an aspect of development or tool can be posted in the General chat forum.

    By following these guidelines we make sure that the forums remain easy to read for everybody and also that the right people can find your post to answer it.

FSX Syntax error in XML ??

R

rcbarend

Resource contributor
Messages
438
Country
netherlands
Oh boy, this was unexpected and took me more then an hour wasted time ...:confused:

When I was debugging an XML gauge (by commenting out sections in the gauge), I continously had Syntax errors causing the gauge not be loaded.

Stripped down to the bone, this appeared to be the culprit:

Code: 
<!--  ... whatever code   --     .....  -->
 
I.e. " -- " (decrement by 1) is not allowed with an <!--    --> comment section.

Rob
 
It's not only a decrement by one, but includes any chunk of code containing "--" with a following character different from ">"

For exampe this is also not allowed:

<!-- -------------- comment ----------- -->

As XML parsers work sequentially, after a <!-- comment start, a --> is expected to end it. When parsing, once reading -- the interpreter expects a > character , if it is any different the gauge won't load, neither in FS, Google Chrome, Explorer, etc.

Old issue this one, it is good that you post it to prevent others from scratching heads for something that is not easy to figure out - actually made me waste a lot of time, like happened to you.

Tom
 
Been there, done that, got the bloody tee-shirt!

This however seems to pass the parser without error:
Code: 
<!-- - - - - - - Comment Text - - - - - - -->
I do not recommend this however!

If one wishes to make the 'comment' stand out more obviously as a 'comment,' I recommend this instead:
Code: 
<!-- ========== Comment Text ========== -->
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top