XML Parsing Error: no root element found Location
Solution 1
AHA! Got this today for a reason which will make me look pretty silly but which might one day help someone.
Having set up an Apache server on my machine, with PHP and so on... I got this error... and then realised why: I had clicked on the HTML file in question (i.e. the one containing the Javascript/JQuery), so the address bar in the browser showed "file:///D:/apps/Apache24/htdocs/experiments/forms/index.html".
What you have to do to actually use the Apache server (assuming it's running, etc.) is go "http://localhost/experiments/forms/index.html" in the browser's address bar.
In mitigation I have up to now been using an "index.php" file and just changed to an "index.html" file. Bit of a gotcha, since with the former you are obliged to access it "properly" using localhost.
Solution 2
I had same situation in Spring MVC Application as it was declared as void, changing it to return String solved the issue
@PostMapping()
public void aPostMethod(@RequestBody( required = false) String body) throws IOException {
System.out.println("DoSome thing" + body);
}
To
@PostMapping()
public String aPostMethod(@RequestBody( required = false) String body) throws IOException {
System.out.println("DoSome thing" + body);
return "justReturn something";
}
Edgar Serna
Updated on July 09, 2022Comments
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Edgar Serna almost 2 years
So I'm making a simple login/registration web application but I keep getting the following error:
XML Parsing Error: no root element found Location: file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/EdgarSerna95_Lab/login.html Line Number 37, Column 3:
and
XML Parsing Error: no root element found Location: file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/EdgarSerna95_Lab/php/login.phpLine Number 37, Column 3:
here is my login.php
<?php header('Content-type: application/json'); $servername = "localhost"; $username = "root"; $password = ""; $dbname = "jammer"; // Create connection $conn = new mysqli($servername, $username, $password, $dbname); // Check connection if ($conn->connect_error) { header('HTTP/1.1 500 Bad connection to Database'); die("The server is down, we couldn't establish the DB connection"); } else { $conn ->set_charset('utf8_general_ci'); $userName = $_POST['username']; $userPassword = $_POST['userPassword']; $sql = "SELECT username, firstName, lastName FROM users WHERE username = '$userName' AND password = '$userPassword'"; $result = $conn->query($sql); if ($result->num_rows > 0) { while($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) { $response = array('firstName' => $row['firstNameName'], 'lastName' => $row['lastName']); } echo json_encode($response); } else { header('HTTP/1.1 406 User not found'); die("Wrong credentials provided!"); } } $conn->close(); ?>
I've done some research about xml parsing errors but I still cant manage to make my project work, ive tried with Google Chrome and Firefox