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Hi Dave, Longtime, no "see". Nice to hear from you again. :-) I think you mean https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/narr/catalog.xml The important part the .xml suffix. Please keep us up-to-date on your progress. Best, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Dave Dempsey > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: San Francisco State University > Package Version: 5.4 build date:2017-05-18 16:06 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: /Applications/IDV_5.4/jre.bundle/Contents/Home/jre > version: 1.8.0_51 j3d:1.6.0-pre12-daily-experimental daily > Description of problem: Creating > ui:https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/narr/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 > > I'm seeing if I can access any of NOMADS data (such as NARR data) using IDV > v5.4 (under Mac OS X 10.11.6) via what appears to be a nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov > THREDDS catalog server. However, I just get the error message above. > > The server is active, and I can get a listing of data when I use a Web > browser to access the URL in the error message above. > > Is it me, is it them, or is it the IDV? > > ****************** > 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:1573) > 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:62) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1215) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1243) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: AWW-398328 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.