XML Custom Panels: Samples With Doc are Not Well Formed XML

Question

The custom panel samples in the XMP Custom Panels document (and the accompanying sample file) is not well formed XML (which means that CS3 can't be parsing the file as XML, which would explain how this error made it publication). In particular, the XML declaration is missing the closing "?".
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<br />As published it is:
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<br /><?xml version="1.0"?>
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<br />It should be:
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<br /><?xml version="1.0"?>
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<br />Note the "?&gt;" rather than "&gt;".
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<br />This is in addition to the DOCTYPE SYSTEM URL not resolving to an actual DTD declaration set (which would be:
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<br /> title CDATA #REQUIRED
<br /> type NMTOKEN #REQUIRED
<br />&gt;
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<br />Cheers,
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<br />Eliot

Answer 1

You'll have to do something to prevent your logger from appending to old logs that have been closed. Sorry if that is not very helpful, but I'm not familiar with the logging features in SDK 1.4. For your interest, though, Log4J (which you can get from Apache) also features XML logging, and it solved that rather obvious problem thus:
"The output of the XMLLayout consists of a series of log4j:event elements as defined in the log4j.dtd. It does not output a complete well-formed XML file. The output is designed to be included as an external entity in a separate file to form a correct XML file."
In other words, you would have to wrap the output in an XML header and a root node to be able to use it, which is not difficult to do.