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I was very surprised to discover that LCFGng can produce badly formed XML. Anyone who is using LCFGng should be able to go to http://lcfgngserver/status and click on the XML profile link for their CE and they will find that it is not well formed. This is if you are using anything up to v1.4.11 with CE_JOBMANAGERS set to "fork pbs" (which is the default) in site-cfg.h. I have just bug reported this (#1093) This amazes me, because it suggests two things: 1) The LCFGng profiles are generated as text streams with angle brackets, where it is hoped that the output is well formed (or a variation on this theme such as a non-standard XML generator with a bug in it, or text post-processing of the profile), which are not checked for well formedness before being output. 2) The LCFGng client is reading these profiles without complaining about them being badly formed. I can only assume this is the case, otherwise there would be a bug report about it, or some error message popping up somewhere, or the system not getting configured properly because the profile cannot be read. In any case, the fact that "almost XML" can be generated and read by the system is worrying, and I thought it worth mentioning here. Ian. -- Ian Stokes-Rees [log in to unmask] Particle Physics, Oxford http://www-pnp.physics.ox.ac.uk/~stokes