Hi I had a basic theme designed a while back but changes that blogger made stopped the theme from working. Every time I try to change the theme to my own, I get a "XML markup error". Here's the code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title><$BlogPageTitle$></title> <$BlogMetaData$> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: #FFF799; font-size: 13px; font-family: verdana, geneva, lucida, 'Lucida Grande', arial, sans-serif; } #container { width: 770px; padding: 0; margin: 0 auto 30px auto; border: 1px solid #486386; background-color: #fff; } #header { margin: 0 0 10px 0; } #main { float: left; width: 508px !important; width: 484px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; } #sidebar { float: right; width: 230px; margin: 0 10px 0 10px; } #insidebar { padding: 8px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: #f4f6fb; border: 1px solid #486386; } #footer { clear: both; text-align: center; font-size: 0.8em; background-color: #FFF799; padding: 10px; } /* elements */ .post { padding: 8px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; background-color: #f4f6fb; border: 1px solid #486386; } .date { font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0 0 5px 0; padding: 2px; background-color: #FFF799; color: #32475f; font-weight: normal; } .navigation { text-align: center; margin: 0 0 8px; } .mtbox { padding: 8px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; } .postmetadata { margin: 0 0 0 15px; } .comment { background-color: #f4f6fb; padding: 5px; } .alt { background-color:#e8ebf2; } .right { text-align: right; } /* lists */ ul { margin: 0 0 5px 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; } li { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 12px; background: url(images/raquo.png) 1px 6px no-repeat; } /* headers */ h2 { margin: 8px 0 8px 0; font-size: 1.2em; color: #486386; } h3 { margin: 8px 0 8px 0; font-size: 1.1em; color: #486386; } #sidebar h2 { font-size: 1em; margin: 0 0 5px 0; padding: 2px; background-color: #FFF799; color: #32475f; } /* links */ a { color:#003399; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color:#839fbc; } a img { border: none; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header"><a href="<$BlogURL$>"><img src="images/header.jpg" /></a></div> <div id="main"> <div class="mtbox"><div align="center"><h2><$BlogPageTitle$></h2></div> <div align="center"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-YOUR PUBLISHER ID HERE"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; google_ad_format = "336x280_as"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_ad_channel =""; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "0000FF"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "000000"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div> </div> <Blogger> <div class="post" id="<$BlogItemNumber$>"> <div class="date"><$BlogItemDateTime$></div> <BlogItemTitle> <h3 class="post-title"> <BlogItemUrl><a href="<$BlogItemUrl$>" title="external link"></BlogItemUrl> <$BlogItemTitle$> <BlogItemUrl></a></BlogItemUrl> </h3> </BlogItemTitle> <div class="entry"> <$BlogItemBody$> </div> <p class="postmetadata">Posted by <$BlogItemAuthorNickname$> | <a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemCommentCreate$>"<$BlogItemCommentFormOnclick$>><$BlogItemCommentCount$> comments</a></p> </div> <ItemPage> <div id="comments"> <BlogItemCommentsEnabled><a name="comments"></a> <h3><$BlogItemCommentCount$> Comments:</h3> <div id="comments-block"> <BlogItemComments> <div class="comments" id="c<$BlogCommentNumber$>"> <cite><$BlogCommentAuthor$></cite> says: <small class="commentmetadata"><$BlogCommentDateTime$></small> <p><$BlogCommentBody$></p> </div> </div> </BlogItemComments> <p class="comment-timestamp"> <$BlogItemCreate$> </p> </BlogItemCommentsEnabled> <BlogItemBacklinksEnabled> <a name="links"></a><h4>Links to this post:</h4> <dl id="comments-block"> <BlogItemBacklinks> <dt class="comment-title"> <$BlogBacklinkControl$> <a href="<$BlogBacklinkURL$>" rel="nofollow"><$BlogBacklinkTitle$></a> <$BlogBacklinkDeleteIcon$> </dt> <dd class="comment-body"><$BlogBacklinkSnippet$> <br /> <span class="comment-poster"> <em>posted by <$BlogBacklinkAuthor$> @ <$BlogBacklinkDateTime$></em> </span> </dd> </BlogItemBacklinks> </dl> <p class="comment-timestamp"><$BlogItemBacklinkCreate$></p> </BlogItemBacklinksEnabled> <p class="comment-timestamp"> <a href="<$BlogURL$>"><< Home</a> </p> <p align="center" class="comment-timestamp"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-YOUR PUBLISHER ID HERE"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text"; google_ad_channel =""; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "0000FF"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "000000"; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></p> </div> </ItemPage> </Blogger> </div> <div id="sidebar"> <div id="insidebar"> <!-- Begin #profile-container --> <$BlogMemberProfile$> <!-- End #profile --> <MainOrArchivePage> <h2 class="sidebar-title">Links</h2> <ul> <li><a href="http://news.google.com/">Google News</a></li> <li><a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=110">Edit-Me</a></li> <li><a href="http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=110">Edit-Me</a></li> </ul> </MainOrArchivePage> <h2 class="sidebar-title">Previous Posts</h2> <ul id="recently"> <BloggerPreviousItems> <li><a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogPreviousItemTitle$></a></li> </BloggerPreviousItems> </ul> <MainOrArchivePage> <h2 class="sidebar-title">Archives</h2> <ul class="archive-list"> <BloggerArchives> <li><a href="<$BlogArchiveURL$>"><$BlogArchiveName$></a></li> </BloggerArchives> </ul> </MainOrArchivePage> <p id="powered-by"><a href="http://www.blogger.com"><img src="http://buttons.blogger.com/bloggerbutton1.gif" alt="Powered by Blogger" /></a></p> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <$BlogTitle$> - Copyright © 2006 - Powered By <a href="http://www.MyDomain.com">Free Wordpress & Blogger Templates</a><br /> </div> </div> </body> </html> Code (markup): Anyone have any idea what could be wrong? Cheers Tony
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I found your error This code use for classic template If you want use XML template please visit my blog above this post (i'm worry become a spammer )
Hi Thanks for your reply. The problem was because I didn't change the settings to classic. Thanks Tony