Pat, Please give us more information about how you arrived at this error. Shouldn't the URL be http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/200807/20080727.thredds instead of http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/200807/20080727.thredds Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Pat Reddy > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Colorado Dept Public health & Environ. > Package Version: 4.1 build date:2013-08-02 18:38 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_4.1\jre version: 1.6.0_43 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: Expanding xlink > node:http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/200807/20080727.thredds > Error parsing xml: > http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/200807/20080727.thredds > The element type "meta" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</meta>". > The element type "meta" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</meta>". > line:5 column:3 > > > ****************** > Stack trace: > java.lang.IllegalStateException: Error parsing xml: > http://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/dods/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/NCEP_NARR_DAILY/200807/20080727.thredds > The element type "meta" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</meta>". > The element type "meta" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</meta>". > line:5 column:3 > > at ucar.unidata.xml.XmlUtil.getDocument(XmlUtil.java:1337) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler$2.readXlinkXml(ThreddsHandler.java:356) > at ucar.unidata.ui.XmlTree.expandXlink(XmlTree.java:1075) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler$2.expandXlink(ThreddsHandler.java:488) > at ucar.unidata.ui.XmlTree$XlinkTreeNode.checkExpansionInner(XmlTree.java:912) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1223) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1251) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ETE-168656 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed