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KevinH · 10-13-2025, 12:22 PM

right click in CodeView and select Mend. Or as it says go to Sigil Preferences and turn on clean/mend source on open. Then try reopening an html file.

Where exactly is your screen capture from? That dies not look like any error message or font that Sigil normally uses?

Are you sure you are using Sigil 2.6.2 and not some earlier version?

The error message says there is am xml parsing error in the specified file in line 30 where it expected a closing tag '>' character but got a ':'.

Open that file and copy and paste lines 29 - 31 here and people can help. But turning on Mend when opening poorly formed html (not xhtml) files is almost a requirement as html is not xhtml.

10-13-2025, 12:22 PM	#2
KevinH Sigil Developer Posts: 9,037 Karma: 6361556 Join Date: Nov 2009 Device: many	right click in CodeView and select Mend. Or as it says go to Sigil Preferences and turn on clean/mend source on open. Then try reopening an html file. Where exactly is your screen capture from? That dies not look like any error message or font that Sigil normally uses? Are you sure you are using Sigil 2.6.2 and not some earlier version? The error message says there is am xml parsing error in the specified file in line 30 where it expected a closing tag '>' character but got a ':'. Open that file and copy and paste lines 29 - 31 here and people can help. But turning on Mend when opening poorly formed html (not xhtml) files is almost a requirement as html is not xhtml. Last edited by KevinH; 10-13-2025 at 12:29 PM.