Monthly Archives: October 2009

Oct 07 2009
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SharePoint Page layout throws “Parser Error Message: Only Content controls are allowed directly in a content page that contains Content controls” during provisioning.

If you see something like this:

Line 42:     </WebPartPages:WebPartZone>
Line 43: </asp:content>
Line 44: <html xmlns:mso="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:msdt="uuid:C2F41010-65B3-11d1-A29F-00AA00C14882"><head>
Line 45: <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
Line 46: <mso:CustomDocumentProperties>

This could be (it was in my case) caused by a very obscure behaviour of the web part manager during provisioning. Namely it doesn’t like your <asp:Content tags to be defined in lower case.

Wrong: Error prone page layout

</p>

<p><asp:content…</p>

<p>

Correct

</p>

<p><asp:Content…</p>

<p>

Yet another SharePoint time waster! 🙂

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