I got thiserror when trying to access my menu which I created to access a customized res.partner model
RPC_ERROR
Odoo Server Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\tools\cache.py", line 85, in lookup
    r = d[key]
  File "", line 2, in __getitem__
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\tools\func.py", line 87, in locked
    return func(inst, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\tools\lru.py", line 34, in __getitem__
    a = self.d[obj]
KeyError: ('res.partner', , (418, 'tree', None, 'fr_FR', res.company(1,), None))
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\http.py", line 1583, in _serve_db
    return service_model.retrying(self._serve_ir_http, self.env)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\service\model.py", line 134, in retrying
    result = func()
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\http.py", line 1610, in _serve_ir_http
    response = self.dispatcher.dispatch(rule.endpoint, args)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\http.py", line 1807, in dispatch
    result = self.request.registry['ir.http']._dispatch(endpoint)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_http.py", line 154, in _dispatch
    result = endpoint(**request.params)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\http.py", line 696, in route_wrapper
    result = endpoint(self, *args, **params_ok)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\web\controllers\dataset.py", line 42, in call_kw
    return self._call_kw(model, method, args, kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\web\controllers\dataset.py", line 33, in _call_kw
    return call_kw(request.env[model], method, args, kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\api.py", line 457, in call_kw
    result = _call_kw_model(method, model, args, kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\api.py", line 430, in _call_kw_model
    result = method(recs, *args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_ui_view.py", line 2494, in get_views
    for [v_id, v_type] in views
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_ui_view.py", line 2494, in 
    for [v_id, v_type] in views
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_ui_view.py", line 2674, in get_view
    result = dict(self._get_view_cache(view_id, view_type, **options))
  File "", line 2, in _get_view_cache
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\tools\cache.py", line 90, in lookup
    value = d[key] = self.method(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_ui_view.py", line 2634, in _get_view_cache
    arch, view = self._get_view(view_id, view_type, **options)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\res_partner.py", line 428, in _get_view
    arch, view = super()._get_view(view_id, view_type, **options)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\res_partner.py", line 103, in _get_view
    arch, view = super()._get_view(view_id, view_type, **options)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\web\models\models.py", line 245, in _get_view
    arch, view = super()._get_view(view_id, view_type, **options)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_ui_view.py", line 2581, in _get_view
    arch = view._get_combined_arch()
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_ui_view.py", line 999, in _get_combined_arch
    arch = root.with_prefetch(tree_views._prefetch_ids)._combine(hierarchy)
  File "C:\Program Files\odoo-16\server\odoo\addons\base\models\ir_ui_view.py", line 936, in _combine
    arch = etree.fromstring(view.arch)
  File "src\lxml\etree.pyx", line 3237, in lxml.etree.fromstring
  File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1896, in lxml.etree._parseMemoryDocument
  File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1777, in lxml.etree._parseDoc
  File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 1082, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseUnicodeDoc
  File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 615, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc
  File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 725, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
  File "src\lxml\parser.pxi", line 654, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
  File "", line 1
lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Document is empty, line 1, column 1
The above server error caused the following client error:
RPC_ERROR: Odoo Server Error
    at makeErrorFromResponse (http://localhost:8069/web/assets/213-d979079/web.assets_backend.min. js:970:163)
    at XMLHttpRequest. (http://localhost:8069/web/assets/213-d979079/web.assets_backend.min.js :978:13)
 
                        
From the log, it indicates a syntax error in the XML code, kindly check the view definition.
it will be better, if you can update the question with relevant codes