The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup

Question

<table id="header" align="center">
    <#assign PI = primaryId />
    <#if (PI.getIdentified())><table id="header" align="center">

I run into the following error any help appreciated,I try to read some other related topics but I can't understand exactly what happen. The error pointed to <#assign PI = primaryId /> .

[Fatal Error] header.ftl:19:23: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup

Solution

From the error message, you are trying to parse the FTL with an XML parser. Of course, FTL is not well-formed XML (though with the square bracket syntax, like [#assign ...] it can be). Maybe you meant to parse the output of the template as XML, not the template itself.