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What can i do to fix the following error:
"Bad closing element BODY expecting P"

-Slarty

I answered this on your personal page, Slarty.

All tags must have a matching to go with them. That's what it's complaining about, basically (having not read iaoth's answer, I'm probably just repeating it).

Just check your article and make sure that for every there is a and that they're correctly nested:

is okay
isn't

I didn't mention the nesting, so you don't have to feel completely useless.

I think the nesting is a symptom of my tendency to state things in over-technical terms, but it's true. XML tags have to be properly nested, and GuideML is an XML application, so it also have to have tags which are properly nested.

Especially since they're using an XML parser and XSLT to do the processing of it on the server.

And I didn't feel useless - just like I wasn't saying anything new, which really doesn't bother me at all. Sometimes having someone say something in a different way can help people understand the explanation better.

You missed the "", didn't you? Of course you weren't useless. Of course different explanations are useful.

Plus I didn't think the nesting was over-technical. You even had a nice example and everything.

Why thankyou.

I try my best

the most common cause of it (and a whole host of other error messages) tend to be due to a missing "<" or a missing ">", which on a rather large page can be very hard to spot.

im a new user and i have the same problem where do i put the IS AT THE END OF THE LINE OR AFTER THE ??

There's no such thing as a tag...

To use , you have to enclose the paragraph in and , like this:

This is a paragraph

You may be getting confused with which creates a single line break. That goes where you want the break to go, like this:

This is a paragraph
With a line break in it

It may help you to learn GuideML by looking at the source for existing Entries. To do this, just replace the "A" in the URL with "test", hence for an article A492772, use test492772.

I think...

Yep, you're right, "A" -> "test".

Of course I'm right