The element type "META" must be terminated with the corresponding end tag "</META>"
Sometimes I get the following error when I try to parse an XML file from Java (on the GAE server):
Parse: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 10; columnNumber: 3; The element type "META" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</META>". But this does not happen all the time, sometimes it works well. The program parses xml files, and I have no problem with them.
This is the XML file I'm trying to parse: http://www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-chelsea-fc/rss.xml
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you
Update:
Thanks for the answer. I changed my code to a different parser and the good news that the file now processes correctly. It’s bad that now he switched to another problem with the same problem, on the same line, despite a completely different feed, and it worked fine before. Can anyone think why this is happening?
It appears to be a living document; that is, one that changes quite often. There is no <meta> .
I can provide two explanations of what is happening:
Sometimes a document is created or is created incorrectly.
Sometimes you get a page with an HTML error instead of the expected document, and the XML parser cannot handle the
<meta>in the HTML<head>. This is because the<meta>in the (valid) HTML does not need to have a matching / closing</meta>. (And, at least for some versions of HTML, a closing tag is not allowed.)
In order to keep track of this, you will need to fix the exact input, due to which the parsing will not complete.
This is not XML, but HTML:
< ! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "- // W3C // DTD HTML 4.01 // EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/strict.dtd ">
The XML parser will not parse it.
I see that the file has no content and it does not look like a valid RSS file. Any server-side error may occur.