Re: Store Locator not working in Firefox

Thanks for your input.

If I understand you correctly, I only need to worry about the
whitespace in the xml and I can ignore the Content-type problem for
now. Correct?

On Dec 17, 1:41 am, Mike Williams <nos...@econym.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Wasn't it Marcelo who wrote:
>
> >You are not sending out the correct http headers with your XML.
>
> >You're sending
> >Content-type: text/html
>
> >while it should be
> >Content-type: text/xml
>
> >There is also some whitespace before your XML output starts, which may
> >or may not affect the rendering as XML. IE doesn't seem to care.
>
> It's actually the whitespace that's the problem. GXml.parse() doesn't
> care what the MIME type is as long as the XML is valid.
>
> One awkward side effect of having the wrong MIME type is that the
> browser attempts to parse it as HTML instead of XML when you point the
> browser directly at the data. So the normal trick of validating your XML
> by pointi8ng your browser at it doesn't work. If you correct the MIME
> type and point FF at the data you see:
>
>    XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
>    Line Number 4, Column 1:
>    <?xml version="1.0"?>
>    ^
>
> As you say, MSIE doesn't seem to care.
>
> Chrome says:
>
>    This page contains the following errors:
>    error on line 4 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start
>    of the document
>
> --
> Mike Williamshttp://econym.org.uk/gmap

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