the name in the end tag of the element must match the element type in the start tag error

Anonymous
2010-10-28T11:18:41+00:00

I too am having the problem many people seem to be having on this forum. I have created a fairly large and important document which includes a lot of maths equations and some graphics. Now every time I try to open it it says there is an error with a mismatch between the start and end tags. I have never worked with XML but have tried to find what feels like a needle in a haystack and can't really see how to proceed. Is there any chance you could help? I have uploaded the document to:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/0ecfpu

Many thanks,

Andrew

Microsoft 365 and Office | Word | For home | Windows

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Anonymous
2010-11-01T19:04:17+00:00

Hi Andrew,

The fixed file is at http://www.wordarticles.com/temp/AH%20Statistics%201%20Notes%20-%20Outcome%202.docx

To try to answer your questions:

There is no easy way to do it in Notepad - I generally use Visual Studio; Yves Dhondt - the only other person here, AFAIK, who fixes these documents - has some tool he wrote himself. It isn't very difficult but there is no guarantee of what you will find when you look. Usually - and I'm sure you're right - it happens when equations and graphics are together and an oMath end tag, and perhaps part of the equation it ends, gets misplaced within a structure that is meant to enable the equation be correctly displayed in earlier versions of Word that do not support the new equation engine.

The structure should be:

<mc:AlternateContent>

<mc:Choice>

<m:oMath>

Start of equation

End of equation

</m:oMath>

<mc:Choice>

<mc:Fallback>

Probably some graphics

</mc:Fallback>

</AlternateContent>

but ends up as:

<mc:AlternateContent>

<mc:Choice>

<m:oMath>

Start of equation

<mc:Choice>

<mc:Fallback>

Probably some graphics

</mc:Fallback> </AlternateContent>

End of equation

</m:oMath>

This is a bug so nothing is for certain, and I don't know what circumstances trigger it, or what you can do to avoid it. I also don't know if Microsoft are working on it, although I have informed them and they have replied that 'it has been passed to the appropriate team' or some such.

For my own amusement I am working on an AddIn that will attempt to mend these documents but I don't know how well it will work, yet.

Enjoy,

Tony

www.WordArticles.com

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-11-28T23:50:50+00:00

    Oops, I stand corrected, XML Marker does indentation. The errors disappeared. I gotta check if that is right.

    If this proposed solution has resolved your issue(s), please mark it as  Propose as Answer  to let others know the solution that worked for you

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-HA101794130.aspx - Silverlight applets Mapping 2003 to 2010 commands for all Office apps.

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx - flash applets mapping Office 2003 menus to 2007 ribbon.

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-11-28T23:05:39+00:00

    I've been following this (and the other) thread with interest, as an exercise in trouble shooting code. I still haven't found an ideal tool but today I found one that is pretty good.  XML Marker V1.1 (free), http://symbolclick.com/download.htm, identified 3 pairs of start and end codes that it couldn't match up properly in the example file.

    The feature I like is that you can click on the start or end tag and it will jump you to that location.

    The problem I still have is that like all of the other xml editors it displays the xml as a long string, making it basically unreadable. Trying to manually insert indenting is an exercise in futilty.

    Tony or Yves, do you know of an xml tool that will at least try to parse a straight string of code into an indented presentation to make it more readable?

    If this proposed solution has resolved your issue(s), please mark it as  Propose as Answer  to let others know the solution that worked for you

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/learn-where-menu-and-toolbar-commands-are-in-office-2010-HA101794130.aspx - Silverlight applets Mapping 2003 to 2010 commands for all Office apps.

    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx - flash applets mapping Office 2003 menus to 2007 ribbon.

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-11-28T19:19:04+00:00

    Tony,

     I am having the same problem that Andrew was having do you think you could possibly help me? A mistmatch between the start and end tags.

    http://www.sendspace.com/file/r0woat

    If you could help that would be greatly appreciated

    Nate

    See  http://www.sendspace.com/file/a6ll33 

    The error was in the first table. Nothing is lost normally, but you might want to verify that part closely.

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