Marcus, Is there a byte order mark in the document? If so the first two bytes would be 0xFE and 0xFF (or the reverse). This is legal but I found that Xerces does not handle this properly. I had to delete the byte order mark in my documents.
I suppose its also possible that the file contents are somehow being escaped. I had this problem when I tried writing out an XML String using XMLWriter. The XMLWriter escaped all of the '<' amd '>' with entities and I got a very similar error message. Good luck, Mark -----Original Message----- From: marcus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 8:39 AM To: dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [dom4j-user] Error in prolog? OS: Windows XP Pro Java: 5 Dom4J: 1.6.1 ================== I keep getting org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 1 of document : Content is not allowed in prolog. Nested exception: Content is not allowed in prolog. I get the same (more or less) using XOM/NUX. I tried using XPP3Reader as well with the following result: org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserException: only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not \uef (position: START_DOCUMENT seen \uef... @1:1) at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.parseProlog(MXParser.java:1475) at org.xmlpull.mxp1.MXParser.nextImpl(MXParser.java:1351) .... I have tried using <?xml version="1.0"?> and <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> and also to skip the prolog altogether. The file should be UTF-8 (according to UltraEdit and Firefox it is). I am invoking using this code: SAXReader saxReader = new SAXReader(); saxReader.addHandler("/epg/genres/genre", new CategoryHandler(tvGuide, languageCode)); saxReader.addHandler("/epg/channels/channel", new ChannelHandler(tvGuide, channelMap, languageCode)); saxReader.read(content); content is an InputStream coming from a file (Windows) I built the code and tested using small files (it worked then) and the error occurs now when I tried to feed it with real data (about 5 megabytes, file generated by someone else). The file opens fine in IE and Firefox and I've also tried using another parser (REXML in Ruby) which also works fine. Any ideas? /Marcus ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list dom4j-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
