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/* Changing the layout to use less space for mobiles */
@media screen and (max-device-width: 480px), screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) {
    #email-body { min-width: 30em !important; }
    #email-page { padding: 8px !important; }
    #email-banner { padding: 8px 8px 0 8px !important; }
    #email-avatar { margin: 1px 8px 8px 0 !important; padding: 0 !important; }
    #email-fields { padding: 0 8px 8px 8px !important; }
    #email-gutter { width: 0 !important; }
}
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                                    <a class="user-hover" rel="vme28@canterbury.ac.nz" id="email_vme28@canterbury.ac.nz" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=vme28%40canterbury.ac.nz" style="color:#326ca6;">Vladimir Mencl</a>
     created <img src="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/images/icons/issuetypes/bug.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Bug"> <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/IDP-597'>IDP-597</a>
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                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/IDP-597'><strong>XML syntax error in FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider example - namespace should not have been included</strong></a>
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                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="putmanb@shibboleth.net" id="email_putmanb@shibboleth.net" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=putmanb%40shibboleth.net" style="color:#326ca6;">Brent Putman</a>
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                    Metadata            </td>
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        08/Feb/15 9:24 PM
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Hi,</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>I've just tried creating a MetadataProvider configuration from the commented-out sample included in conf/metadata-providers.xml and got:</p>

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<pre>2015-02-09 15:14:18,383 - ERROR [net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.service.AbstractReloadableService:178] - Service 'shibboleth.MetadataResolverService': Initial load failed
net.shibboleth.utilities.java.support.service.ServiceException: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 66 in XML document from file [/opt/shibboleth-idp/conf/metadata-providers.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 66; columnNumber: 96; UndeclaredPrefix: Cannot resolve 'metadata:FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider' as a QName: the prefix 'metadata' is not declared.
        at net.shibboleth.ext.spring.service.ReloadableSpringService.doReload(ReloadableSpringService.java:332)
Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionStoreException: Line 66 in XML document from file [/opt/shibboleth-idp/conf/metadata-providers.xml] is invalid; nested exception is org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 66; columnNumber: 96; UndeclaredPrefix: Cannot resolve 'metadata:FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider' as a QName: the prefix 'metadata' is not declared.
        at org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader.doLoadBeanDefinitions(XmlBeanDefinitionReader.java:399)
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: UndeclaredPrefix: Cannot resolve 'metadata:FileBackedHTTPMetadataProvider' as a QName: the prefix 'metadata' is not declared.
        at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:198)
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<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Fixing it was just the matter of stripping the metadata: prefix from the xsi:type - but I think this should be fixed in the example to avoid new deployers getting stuck on this.</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>Cheers,<br/>
Vlad</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'>&#8211; <br/>
Vladimir Mencl, Ph.D.<br/>
E-Research Services and Systems Consultant<br/>
BlueFern Computing Services<br/>
University of Canterbury<br/>
Private Bag 4800<br/>
Christchurch 8140<br/>
New Zealand</p>

<p style='margin-top:0;margin-bottom:10px;'><a href="https://www.tuakiri.ac.nz/" class="external-link">https://www.tuakiri.ac.nz/</a><br/>
<span class="nobr"><a href="mailto:vladimir.mencl@canterbury.ac.nz" class="external-link">vladimir.mencl@canterbury.ac.nz<sup><img class="rendericon" src="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/images/icons/mail_small.gif" height="12" width="13" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"/></sup></a></span></p>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Project:</strong>
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        <a style="color:#326ca6;" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/IDP">Identity Provider</a>
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Priority:</strong>
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                        <img src="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/images/icons/priorities/minor.png" height="16" width="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Minor">                Minor
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        <strong style="font-weight:normal;color:#505050;">Reporter:</strong>
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                                        <a class="user-hover" rel="vme28@canterbury.ac.nz" id="email_vme28@canterbury.ac.nz" href="https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=vme28%40canterbury.ac.nz" style="color:#326ca6;">Vladimir Mencl</a>
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