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Penguin45
07-06-2004, 09:31 PM
I'm getting the following error in my log when I tried converting my iSilo document:

Unable to parse CSS: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/css/news/news_story.css
Unable to parse CSS: http://news.com.com/css/news/news_story.css

The main source is http://news.com.com/2003-12_3-0.html (include images, follow off-site links, Maximum Link Depth = 1). I've been using iSiloX to convert this document for a long time before (more than a year) and only started getting the error a few days ago. I tried using iSiloX 4.01 for Mac OS X (I'm using 10.3.4) and iSiloX 4.05 for Windows (XP), both generate the same error.

BTW, I'm also getting an error when I try to install iSiloX 4.05 in Mac OS X 10.3.4 (as previously reported by another member).

iSilo
07-07-2004, 08:42 AM
Those two URLs actually point to identical CSS files. Looking at the CSS file at line 588, there is an extraneous comma after "#yourTake":

#yourTake, {
position: relative;
border-bottom: 1px dotted #CCC;
}

Looks like they changed the CSS and introduced a typo error. You may want to inform the webmaster at the site of the error.

Penguin45
07-08-2004, 06:30 PM
I e-mailed CNET News.com's tech support and told them of your diagnosis. They replied that they were able to fix the problem. The thing is, when I try to use iSiloX (same settings as the first post) now to convert the site, it apparently just stops converting after a while, no message or log. This is what it says in the Status column:

2004/07/09 02:23:02 (0K) Error

What could be the problem?

iSilo
07-08-2004, 09:52 PM
It turns out that the same issue is present in an inline style block within the page for the article "Defense bill could stifle computer trade" under the July 1 section, which I presume will fall off the page on July 9 since it will be more than a week past. If you are interested in where the problem is specifically in this case, it is on Line 627 of the HTML source, which has:
#super h3, { display: block; font-size: 1.5em; padding: 0; margin: 0 0 2px; color: #900; }
There will be a modification to iSiloX to the next update to ignore this error condition so that conversion proceeds without error.

Penguin45
07-08-2004, 11:13 PM
Thanks so much for the quick reply. I will e-mail News.com's tech support again. Re: modification in the next iSiloX update, that would be great. iSiloX (and iSilo) are my most used applications for my Palm T3. Keep up the GREAT work guys!