opening corrupt XPage

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

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Firstly make sure your db is open in the "Applications Navigator". Just expanded so you can see the contents of the application is good enough.

Go to Window->Show Eclipse Views ->Other...
In the "Show View" dialog, select General -> Navigator and click ok
In the "Navigator" view, find your nsf.
Expand the nsf and then expand the XPages folder.
Right click on the corrupt XPage and you will have the "Open With" option.
Select Open With -> Text Editor and it will open for you.

It should be safe to edit the XPage from within the text editor. Your changes will be picked up by the XPages Editor when you next open it from the "Applications Navigator"
(I say "should", because that's not always true for custom controls, but for a simple XPage you should not have any problems).

There was a known issue with styles in 8.5.1 that may be causing this problem for you. Have a look through the source of the page and see if you can find any style attributes set on tags where the style attribute ends with a space, or has undefined style attributes set etc..

Something like

style="color:red; " or
style="color:"

Spaces were the biggest issue. If there are any empty spaces at the end of any style attributes, delete the spaces.

Please send on the source of the XPage, even if it does turn out to be a space issue, so we can make sure that you are not seeing a new use case that we haven't already fixed.

Feedback response number GOKE87MH7P created by ~Julia Asawekonyli on 07/23/2010