203222 - XML-parsing error in about:

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Per Granlund]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030424 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030424 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Summary says it all. And here is the error message I am getting:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:
jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml Line Number
69, Column 23:<a id="mozlink" href="&releaseURL;">&brandShortName; &version;</a>
----------------------^

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type about: in location bar

Actual Results:  
I got the following error message:
XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:
jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml Line Number
69, Column 23:<a id="mozlink" href="&releaseURL;">&brandShortName; &version;</a>
----------------------^

Expected Results:  
Showing the copyright info.

Comment 1

[dmoran]

Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a)
Gecko/20030424 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

Comment 2

[Tom Sommer]

WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030423
Firebird Browser/0.6

It all depends on the machine supporting the (tm) char?

Comment 3

[Sébastien Delahaye]

It has nothing to do with ™, and it's not Linux-specific.

Comment 4

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Attachment: Fix

diff -u

The patch makes a diff with two local versions of about.xhtml, since my cvs
install is b0rked, but you get the idea.

Comment 5

[Sébastien Delahaye]

CC'ing pch, since he made the changes that caused this.

Comment 6

[Sébastien Delahaye]

Another fix would be to bring back &releaseURL; into brand.dtd.

Comment 7

[Pierre Chanial]

-> me

Comment 8

[Pierre Chanial]

I moved the releaseURL entity back to brand.dtd. Not sure it belong there, but I
have no time to worry more.
marking fixed.

Comment 9

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 203305 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[noririty]

http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/browser/app&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=brand.dtd&rev1=1.1&rev2=1.2&root=/cvsroot
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/browser/base/locale&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=browser.dtd&rev1=1.53&rev2=1.54&root=/cvsroot
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/browser/base/content&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=aboutDialog.xul&rev1=1.8&rev2=1.9&root=/cvsroot
http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla/toolkit/locale&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=brand.dtd&rev1=1.11&rev2=1.12&root=/cvsroot
v.