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> Full Name: Matthew Howard > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Oceanography - Texas A&M University > Package Version: 4.0u1 build date:2013-03-29 18:10 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: > /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home version: > 1.6.0_43 j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: Creating > ui:http://megara.tamu.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.html > Error parsing xml: The declaration for the entity "HTML.Version" must end > with '>'. > The declaration for the entity "HTML.Version" must end with '>'. line:31 > column:3 > > Trying to read anything from; > > http://megara.tamu.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.html > http://pong.tamu.edu/thredds/catalog.html > Matthew, You need to enter the xml link: http://megara.tamu.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.xml , not html link. Yuan > I can't tell if my TDS are set-up incorrectly or there is something in > > java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error parsing xml: The declaration for the > entity "HTML.Version" must end with '>'. > The declaration for the entity "HTML.Version" must end with '>'. line:31 > column:3 > > at ucar.unidata.xml.XmlUtil.getDocument(XmlUtil.java:1572) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.makeUiFromPath(XmlChooser.java:418) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.makeUiFromPath(XmlChooser.java:388) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.doUpdateInner(XmlChooser.java:703) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1221) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error parsing xml: The declaration for the > entity "HTML.Version" must end with '>'. > The declaration for the entity "HTML.Version" must end with '>'. line:31 > column:3 > > at ucar.unidata.xml.XmlUtil.getDocument(XmlUtil.java:1572) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.makeUiFromPath(XmlChooser.java:418) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.makeUiFromPath(XmlChooser.java:388) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.doUpdateInner(XmlChooser.java:703) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1221) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CSJ-108641 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed