--- ECHO_content/ECHO_helpers.py	2004/10/27 14:23:24	1.21
+++ ECHO_content/ECHO_helpers.py	2004/10/27 14:53:00	1.22
@@ -18,8 +18,11 @@ def readFieldFromXML(meta_url,parent,fie
 		dom=xml.dom.minidom.parse(meta_url)
 
 	except:
-		fh=urllib.urlopen(meta_url)
-		dom=xml.dom.minidom.parse(fh)
+		try:
+			fh=urllib.urlopen(meta_url)
+			dom=xml.dom.minidom.parse(fh)
+	        except:
+			return None
 	if not dom: return None
 
 	parent=dom.getElementsByTagName(parent)