[dom4j-user] Document root element is missing - but it isn't!

[David Thielen]

Hi;   I am getting the following error on well formed xml (for a final check I read the xml file with Internet Explorer and it is happy with it). Any ideas?   thanks - dave   Exception occurred: org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 1 of document  : Document root element is missing. Nested exception: Document root element is missing. org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 1 of document  : Document root element is missing. Nested exception: Document root element is missing.       at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:355)       at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:261)       at net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport.class$net$windward$xmlreport$ProcessReport(Unknown Source)       at net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport.process(Unknown Source)       at Example.main(Example.java:78) Nested exception: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element is missing.       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3182)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3170)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:501)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)       at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:339)       at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:261)       at net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport.class$net$windward$xmlreport$ProcessReport(Unknown Source)       at net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport.process(Unknown Source)       at Example.main(Example.java:78) Nested exception: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Document root element is missing.       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3182)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.fatal(Parser2.java:3170)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parseInternal(Parser2.java:501)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.Parser2.parse(Parser2.java:305)       at org.apache.crimson.parser.XMLReaderImpl.parse(XMLReaderImpl.java:442)       at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:339)       at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:261)       at net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport.class$net$windward$xmlreport$ProcessReport(Unknown Source)       at net.windward.xmlreport.ProcessReport.process(Unknown Source)       at Example.main(Example.java:78)