Hi Peabody,
Regarding on the web.config parse error, based on my research, there does
exists an known issue of the ASP.NET web application's configuration file.
When you add <clearelement to remove any collection elements, you need to
use the <clear/format instead of <clear></clearsyntax. There has some
problems within the configuration parsing code of ASP.NET.
I have also discussed with some other ASP.NET dev engineers, so far the
problem hasn't a fix and the recommend workaround is to change
<clear></clearsyntax to <clear/so as to avoid the error.
As you mentioned, for your scenario, the elements are generated by
installsheid, then, I'm wondering whether there is any customization point
at the installsheid's setup stage(such as the custom action of windows
installer package) which can let you add some code to do some customization
on the installed application files? Or whether the web.config file can be
created as static content in advance and do not let installsheild to
generate it?
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
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>From: =?Utf-8?B?RGFuYQ==?= <Pe*****@commun ity.nospam>
Subject: Error parsing web.config file
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:03:03 -0700
>
I am re-posting this message after registering my posting alias.
When I specify an end tag for the clear element of namespaces in my
web.config file, the parser error "Unrecogniz ed element 'add'" is
reported.
>
...
<pages>
<namespaces>
<clear></clear>
<add namespace="Syst em"/>
...
When the same element is specified using the empty element tag syntax, it
works.
...
<pages>
<namespaces>
<clear/>
<add namespace="Syst em"/>
...
InstallSheid l/MSI is creating the XML file, and I therefore have no
control
>over the format details. Is this a known problem? How can I work around
it,
>short of generating the XML file myself?
Thanks
