RE: [dom4j-user] Content is not allowed in prolog

[Naveen Murthy]

Hello,   I found these lines in the dom4j src dir for SaxReader.java Pls look at the comment section..It may pertain to ur problem...       /** <p>Reads a Document from the given <code>File</code></p>       *       * @param file is the <code>File</code> to read from.       * @return the newly created Document instance       * @throws DocumentException if an error occurs during parsing.       * @throws MalformedURLException if a URL could not be made for the given File       */     public Document read(File file) throws DocumentException, MalformedURLException {         try {             /*              * We cannot convert the file to an URL because if the filename              * contains '#' characters, there will be problems with the              * URL in the InputSource (because a URL like              * http://myhost.com/index#anchor is treated the same as              * http://myhost.com/index)              * Thanks to Christian Oetterli              */             return read( new InputSource(new FileReader(file)) );         } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {             throw new MalformedURLException(e.getMessage());         }     }   THanks, Naveen -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Billy Ng Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [dom4j-user] Content is not allowed in prolog 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