ASP.NET XML Parsing Error: no element found Line Number 1, Column 1 Error

Question

Hey I found a weird temperamental page which randomly gives me the following error

XML Parsing Error: no element found
Location: http://kj2011/site_2011/nonprofit-data         


        

Answer 1

Just for the future reference, in case people come here from google

According to this thread, there are many different reasons to get this error. In my case this caused by overriding override void Render(System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter writer)

and I have not called base.Render(writer); at the end of overridden function.