The name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag. Location: Part:/word/document.xml, Line: 2, Column:646910.

I have managed to repair the document so it can be opened in all versions of Word. The problem is the drawing at the top of page 16 - although it looks correct in Word 2010, in earlier versions of Word, all you will see is some text I have inserted in its place: "This document is corrupt. The graphic that should be here can not be displayed in versions of Word prior to 2010."

If you edit the rest of the document you probably won't disturb anything, but if you edit the broken graphic, things will go wrong again. I suggest you completely remove this from the document and rebuild the structure you want (a) from scratch and (b) in a different way. There is nothing obviously wrong with it (that I can see) but, clearly, Word 2010 gags on it.

Please see: http://cid-142722a74d07b70e.office.live.com/self.aspx/.Public/Thesis%20compiled%20%5E52%5E6%20Rebuilt.docx#resId/142722A74D07B70E!148 for the document.

@Edison_Ed,

There was a missing </mc:AlternateContent> close tag that shifted the close to the next </w:r>. I added the tag manually and then rebuilt the .DOCX.

The repaired file can be found here. Hover over Thesis_Compiled_(fixed) the select the More, Download command from the right hand side.

Hi Jeeped,

 

What you have found was, indeed, the error; this is a new type of corruption that is starting to appear - Microsoft have told me nothing has changed but something, somewhere, certainly appears to have done - and well done for fixing it - especially in Notepad; the more people who can do this the better.

The correct construct looks like this (apologies in advance for the formatting - I don't see any tools in this forum):

<mc:AlternateContent>

    <mc:Choice requires = "wps">

        Word 2010 xml

    </mc:Choice>

    <mc:Fallback>

        Word 2007 xml

    </mc:Fallback>

</mc:AlternateContent>

 

When Word 2010 reads the xml it reads the "wps" Choice section - the Word 2010 graphics format code - and ignores the rest. Earlier versions of Word will read whatever is in the Fallback section (which should be a Word 2007 format graphic) and ignore the Choice.

Requires="wps" does not actually _mean_ Word 2010, but in this case it implies it. The contents of the two lots of xml are, typically, a <drawing> structure for 2010, and a <pict> structure for 2007.

When there is no fallback, the document will open in earlier versions, but there will simply be nothing in place of the image. I can not reconstruct the required pict structure - although it would be fun to try - and I don't think Yves can either, so we add a basic Fallback construct containing a text placeholder, so that anyone opening the document in Word 2007 is notified that something is missing.

Ideally the document owner will fix the problem once they can open the document but, unless they are running multiple versions of Word - which isn't common for normal users - it will be very hard for them to know whether they have done so.

Dear All,

I have tried all the solutions that I can find in google. But I still couldn't open the corrupt file. I have tried to extract the raw text file using the Words but it gave me some nonsensical characters.

My error message is the same as everyone here.

It says the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag.

Location: Part: /word.document.xml, Line: 1876, Column: 10431

I will really appreciate it very much if some kind soul here could help me!! please...

http://www.4shared.com/file/PJbeib5j/Thesis_compiled__2_.html

Edison