Adblock Plus causes XML parse failure on valid XHTML 1.1 page

[Peter Berry]

Binary package hint: adblock-plus

With Adblock Plus enabled, http://www.nexusuk.org/photos/sucs/room/2000/image6/view (which is valid XHTML 1.1, see http://sucs.org/uri/4w) causes an XML parse error. With Adblock Plus disabled, it renders fine.

This is version 0.7.5.4-0ubuntu1 on Hardy with Firefox version 3.0.1+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.3.

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

HOW TO FIX THIS:

This caused by the filter "/adverts/*" (which is added by the subscription "Liste FR (France) + EasyList", and probably with others too).

The solution is to deactivate that specific filter or, on the site owner's side, would be to send the page with content type "text/html" (interpreting code as XHTML is *not* recommended, as any problem with the code will abort the rendering and just show an error message) or renaming the adverts/ folder to something else.

THE REAL PROBLEM?

I'm not sure why this is actually happening, I'll see if I can have a better look at it. I'll also update the adblock-plus package, but I won't have time to do so until the end of the month (I'm leaving for holidays tomorrow).

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

I have tested adblock-plus 1.1-0ubuntu1. For jaunty you can grab the package from my backports PPA: https://launchpad.net/~bdrung/+archive/backports

With firefox-3.0 I still get the XML processing error page, but with firefox-3.5 the page is shown correctly. So is this really a adblock-plus bug?