Can't get past "Token StartElement" error

Colonel Angus · August 10th, 2005, 12:57 PM

I have been steadily building an XML output doc from an existing .NET web app. However, I just started getting the error "Token StartElement in state Epilog would result in an invalid XML document". From what I have read, it sounds like this means I am trying to append to an existing document - however, that document has been deleted.

Here's what I've stripped it down to, and it still gives the error.

Code:

Dim writer As New XmlTextWriter(path, Nothing)
writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented
        writer.WriteStartDocument()
        writer.WriteStartElement("CounselingInformation")
        writer.WriteEndElement()
            For i = 0 To ds.Tables(0).Rows.Count - 1
                writer.WriteStartElement("CounselingRecord")
                writer.WriteEndElement()
            Next
        writer.WriteEndDocument()
        writer.Close()

Any ideas on why this would throw the error?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

Colonel Angus · August 10th, 2005, 01:21 PM

<oops>
In line 5 of my code, I closed the root element before I started the content loop.
</oops>

Live and learn, I guess.

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