# Error reading pvtu file
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-pvtu-file/1379
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 3, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-pvtu-file/1379 "2019-03-03T23:37:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@vrkssai](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/vrkssai)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2019, 11:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-pvtu-file/1379/1 "2019-03-03T23:37:39Z")
I’m trying to write a .pvtu file to read multiple .vtu files wriiten out from a parallel program. When opening in paraview it gives the following error: “Error processing xml file at line 12 column 2 byte index 502”. I have scalar data r,u,v,w,t,p,c in ascii format in the .vtu files. Could someone please point out what I am doing wrong please?
Link for the file: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ps0GNVZUrN0RIbmV1Ffr7SsNnS6QkQyVEpJ16rswyRw/edit?usp=sharing](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ps0GNVZUrN0RIbmV1Ffr7SsNnS6QkQyVEpJ16rswyRw/edit?usp=sharing)
(I’m unable to write the write here)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-pvtu-file/1379/2 "2019-03-04T13:07:08Z")
Looks like you’re missing a dash “/”
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### Author:  [@vrkssai](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/vrkssai)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/error-reading-pvtu-file/1379/3 "2019-03-05T20:33:44Z")
That solved it! Don’t know how I missed that, thanks a bunch!