Server status XML error?

On the Server Status page it says "The server status will update automatically, therefore there is no need to refresh this page. An XML feed of the server-status has also been provided and can be linked to using the icon located at the bottom of the page."

When i click on the icon i get:
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This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

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What am i doing wrong?

You're not doing anything wrong. The XML feed is not designed to be displayed, it is intended to be parsed, typically by a script or program.

It is possible to embed display information in an XML file, allowing it to be displayed much like HTML, but that XML file is not set up that way since that's not its intended use. Therefore your browser just displays the raw data.

Ah, so how would i use it properly with Firefox? i've added other XML feeds before (6 so far), but those were more... automated i guess.

Well this is outside my main area of knowledge but I believe the difference is that usually what you subscribe to is an RSS feed. Those are formatted in XML, but in a specific subset. The XML feed on the server status page seems to be just raw XML.

My guess as to the intended use of the XML feed in this case is for fan sites to display their own "Server status" indicators. Presumably when you request the page the site would pull down the XML feed, parse out the server status information, and display it in some way.

So I don't think this is the type you'd subscribe to.

Ah, okay. i had a feeling it was something like that, but the page's description wasn't clear to me. i wasn't thinking, and all the RSS feeds i've used had the same icon.

Yeah again I can't be sure but my bet is the web developers in this case screwed up, because you're right they are using the typical RSS feed icon for that XML feed which is misleading.

http://webapps.sgspaces.net/srvstatus.xml

You can subscribe to that, it will update every 10 minutes.

The difference is:
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&lt;?xml version="1.0" ?&gt;
&lt;rss version="2.0"&gt;
&lt;channel&gt;
&lt;title&gt;CoH Server status&lt;/title&gt;

&lt;description&gt;RSS Feed of the City of Heroes server status page.&lt;/description&gt;

&lt;link&gt;http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/ser...l&lt;/link&gt;


&lt;item&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Freedom - Up&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;description&gt;Freedom server is Up&lt;/description&gt;
&lt;link&gt;http://coh.com&lt;/link&gt;
&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;item&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Justice - Up&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;description&gt;Justice server is Up&lt;/description&gt;
&lt;link&gt;http://coh.com&lt;/link&gt;
&lt;/item&gt;

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&lt;item&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Training Room - Unknown&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;description&gt;Training Room server is Unknown&lt;/description&gt;
&lt;link&gt;http://coh.com&lt;/link&gt;
&lt;/item&gt;

&lt;/channel&gt;
&lt;/rss&gt;
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Each server gets an &lt;item&gt; Entry with details.
where as the XML Output from the main site is raw XML not RSS Formatted.
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&lt;servers timestamp="2009-05-11 17:55:01" timezone="UTC"&gt;
&lt;server name="Freedom" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Justice" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Pinnacle" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Virtue" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Liberty" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Guardian" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Infinity" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Protector" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Victory" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Champion" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Triumph" status="Up"/&gt;
&lt;server name="Training Room" status="Unknown"/&gt;
&lt;/servers&gt;
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