Hello, On our Purchase orders, we have users that either copy/paste text from a website, excel or PDF filed into the Memo/Description field of the line items. At the time of printing/generating the PDF file for the PO, this information, 1. It errors out with this error: Element type "br" must be followed by either attribute specifications, ">" or "/>". 2. It doesn't continue to the next page of the PDF. 3. The PDF stops right there and it doesn't continue with the following item lines. • Could some special/hidden characters might be causing that? • Have you come across an issue like this? I will appreciate any info you can share. Thank you

My understanding is it's a difference between HTML/ XML / XHTML. In HTML, in the case of what is being pasted, br is fine, but with the parser expecting XHTML, unclosed tags are not acceptable so all br should really be br / and that's likely why it's breaking. The error message itself points to this, it's expecting either br ... /br or in the case of a break br / which would be "more correct" if that makes sense! I'm not an html / xml / xhtml "expert" but if you google "what's the difference between br and br /" I think you'll find it's talked about plenty.

Thanks a lot for the info. It looks like since we are truncating the Description field we display, it includes double quotes and other characters that seems to be leaving open tags.

Also watch out for Rich Text fields. Those have a tendency to go crazy and mis-parse, especially with pasted-in contents.

First, check the problematic purchase order line description And also look for <br>, <div>, unmatched HTML tags, special characters like &. then confirm by replacing the description with plain text and regenerating PDF.