[dom4j-user] Content is not allowed in prolog

[Billy Ng]

Hi folks,   When I try to use Dom4j to read the file with "#" in the path, it will throw the following exception.   org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 1 of document file:/C:/Program Files/../../../#l/settings.xml: Content is not allowed in prolog. Nested exception: Content is not allowed in prolog.         at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:339)         at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:218)   The exception says "Content is not allowed in prolog", but I am sure everything is legal in the xml.  It works if I change the "#" to a letter in the path.   Why?   Billy Ng