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I keep getting this error whenever I try to preview templates into the HTML box of the Blogger template:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.

One of the templates I'm trying to use would be like this:
http://www.createblog.com/blogger-layouts/36286-summer/

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Personally I dislike blogger... it seems easy but at the end it turns to be more complicated than others. I have run in similar problems as you... changed to wordpress... – lepe Aug 26 '11 at 4:14
Lepe: I wont agree with you. Blogger is easy to understand. The errors he is getting because of the mistakes he has made in xml template. If xml is not proper, whether its a blogger or another platform. there will be problem. – Sangram Sep 14 '11 at 8:05
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I have checked the template and this template is full of mistakes.

like

No ending tag, no white space etc I tried correcting the mistakes but It is not even real blogger template.

Even if you correct errors,you will not be able to see desired result.

Check out some another template.

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Because no picture.

Change the image link:

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Load the source into Notepad++ and enable syntax highlighting for XML. You'll see the problems clearly. Here are some suggestions.

  • The code is riddled with <br> tags. Try replacing them with <br />. Better yet get rid of them; using them for web layouts or to add whitespace between containers is bad practice.

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  • For img tags, try adding a / before the closing >. enter image description here

  • Replace text instances of the ampersand symbol with &amp; or &#38;

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  • There's an extra closing > in Line 70, before the word "comment."

    enter image description here

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