XML Parse Error After Upgrade

dlsoderberg

We recently upgraded our version of TeamSite from 6.0 to 6.1 (on our way to 6.5). I have a template that worked prior to the upgrade now giving the dreaded XML parse error. I know that iwperl was upgraded with TS 6.1 to 5.8.x. I cannot see the problem with the code we have in the template, however. Here is the error we're getting:

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XML parse error:
no element found at line 1, column 0, byte -1 at /apps/Interwoven/TeamSite/iw-perl/vendor/lib/XML/Parser.pm line 187
:/default/main/newellco/WORKAREA/load/templatedata/newellco/investor/presentation/investor.tpl

And here is the code I have narrowed it down to...If I take out all of the substitutions, it works fine. Can anyone lend a hand in determing what's wrong with the substitutions? Thanks in advance!

<![CDATA[<div class="mainSub">]]>
<iw_perl><![CDATA[
$content = iwpt_dcr_value("dcr.Main_Content");

if (iwpt_get_dcr_name() eq "investorPresentations"){
$content =~ s/<div>/<div class="mainSubSmall">/g;}

$content =~ s/Â//g;
#$content =~ s/<p>(.*)<\/p>/$1<\/BR><\/BR>/g;
$content =~ s/<p>//g;
$content =~ s/<p align="center">//g;
$content =~ s/é/&eacute;/g;
$content =~ s/<\/p>/<\/BR><\/BR>/g;
$content =~ s/target="_blank"/target="_blank" class="orange"/g;
$content =~ s/target="blank"/target="_blank" class="orange"/g;
iwpt_output("$content");

]]>
</iw_perl>

Adam Stoller

If I had to guess (I don't have to, but I will) - I'd say it was the line highlighed below, above the line you commented out, that was actually causing the problems (why the line you commented out seemed to have an affect I don't know):...
$content =~ s/<div>/<div class="mainSubSmall">/g;}

$content =~ s/�//g;
#$content =~ s/<p>(.*)<\/p>/$1<\/BR><\/BR>/g;
...Also - a few comments for improving the readability of your code:

• Use the non-strict-XML format of PTs, so you don't have <![CDATA[ ... ]]> tags all over the place
• Use a different character for the substitution regex separator so you don't have to 'escape' everything. E.g., this is probably a lot easier to read:
  $content =~ s{<p>(.*)</p>}{$1</BR></BR>}g;
• You should probably be using gsmi as the regex modifier instead of just g
• You also probably do not want (.*), but rather (.*?) becuase if you have multiple begin/end paragraph statements the former would pull them all in whereas the latter would handle them one at a time (though if you have nested paragraph markers, you'll still have problems using the regex).
• Examine your HTML code in your regex carefully - because I don't think you want </BR>, I think you want <BR/> - and even more correctly - <br/> since all-uppercase-tag names is so passe

...
$content =~ s{<p>(.*?)</p>}{$1<br/><br>b>/>}gsmi;
...

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
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