Not well-formed error while implementin ajax in firefox---can anyone help

Question

hi techies,
I'm trying to implement ajax in firefox and i'm getting not well-formed error in error console
heres part of code
var xmlHttp;
function create(){
if(window.ActiveXObject){
xmlHttp=window.ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
else if(window.XMLHttpRequest){
xmlHttp=window.XMLHttpRequest();
else{
xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
function getEmployeeDetails(){
frm = document.forms[0];
empid = frm.elements["empid"].value;
url="empdetails.jsp?empid=" + empid;
xmlHttp.open("GET" ,url, true);
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange=doUpdate;
xmlHttp.send(null);
function doUpdate(){
if(xmlHttp.readyState==4 && xmlHttp.status == 200){
var root = xmlHttp.responseXML.documentElement;
----so on
jsp Page is
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" contentType="text/xml" %>
<%
String empid=request.getParameter("empid");
Class.forName("oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver");
Connection con=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:vmouli","hr","hr");
Statement st=con.createStatement();
ResultSet rs=st.executeQuery("select first_name,salary from employees where employee_id=" + empid);
if(rs.next()){
out.println("<employee><name>");out.println(rs.getString(1));
out.println("</name><salary>");out.println(rs.getString(2));
out.println("</salary></employee>");
else{
out.println("<error>Employee ID not found</error>");
rs.close();
st.close();
con.close();
%>
Firefox error console is saying not well-formed and is pointing to starting of my jsp page
can anyone help plzzz

Answer 1

mouli007 wrote:
Thanx for that Cotton
My XML document is wellformed no doubt about thatNo doubt about that?!?
I would say there is a great deal of doubt about that, especially since the subject of this thread, which you stated was the error message from FireFox is that the document is not well formed at all. I have some more wild guesses about what you've screwed up. Would you like to hear them? My best guess at this point would be that you are outputting some whitespace at the start of the output.
Anyway, this seems pretty pointless. Your code is crap. And I really don't see the point in telling us you have an error, posting code, then having several people identify several major problems in your code and then for you tell us that your code is perfect. Your code is not perfect. It's terrible. Fix it. You've been given several ideas in this and your cross-post as to how to fix it.