RE: The root element is required in a well-formed document.

[David Nelson]

Well maybe I can take a shot at this.  I'm not familiar with the technique:
"href= attribute" but if whatever this is has to read part of the incoming
stream, then the xml header would no longer be available to the xerces
parser in the resulting stream, which would then throw an error.

I'm really just taking a stab since no one else seems to be responding so I
suspect that this message will be royally fileted for naive assumptions.

Good Luck.


-->  -----Original Message-----
-->  From: Stefan Geelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
-->  Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:41 PM
-->  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-->  Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-->  Subject: Re: The root element is required in a well-formed 
-->  document.
-->  
-->  
-->  Joseph,
-->  
-->  I finally found out that appareantly the 'The root element 
-->  is required in a
-->  well-formed document.' is caused when I try to detect if a 
-->  xmlstream has a
-->  xslfile defined via the href= attribute:
-->  
-->        try { // Check if xml has link to stylesheet
-->           System.err.println("Looking for XSL file...");
-->  
-->           // Look for stylesheet in xmlfile/stream/reader
-->           if (xmlfile != null) {
-->             System.err.println("Looking in xmlfile");
-->             xslsource = tfactory.getAssociatedStylesheet(new
-->  StreamSource(xmlfile),media, title, charset);
-->             if (xslsystemid == (null))
-->               xslsystemid = xmlfile.toString();
-->           } else {
-->              if (xmlstream != null) {  // IT GOES WRONg HERE !
-->                xslsource = tfactory.getAssociatedStylesheet(new
-->  StreamSource(xmlstream),media, title, charset);
-->                System.err.println("Looking in xmlstream");
-->              } else {
-->                if (xmlreader != null) {
-->                  xslsource = tfactory.getAssociatedStylesheet(new
-->  StreamSource(xmlreader),media, title, charset);
-->                  System.err.println("Looking in xmlreader");
-->                }
-->              }
-->            }
-->  
-->  As long as it is a xmlFILE then there is no problem, but 
-->  when it is a
-->  xmlstream the problem arises (didn't check with a xmlreader).
-->  
-->  I use XalanD22R14.
-->  
-->  Is this a bug, do I something wrong or is this maybe 
-->  solved in 2.3.1 ?
-->  
-->  Regards,
-->  
-->  Stefan
-->  
-->  ----- Original Message -----
-->  From: "Joseph Kesselman/CAM/Lotus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-->  To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-->  Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:59 PM
-->  Subject: Re: The root element is required in a well-formed 
-->  document.
-->  
-->  
-->  >
-->  > Have you tried printing the content of the stream to 
-->  make sure that what's
-->  > being retrieved is, in fact, a well-formed XML document?
-->  >
-->  > (For what it's worth, that error message is actually 
-->  coming from Xerces,
-->  > before Xalan per se sees the document's content.)
-->  >
-->  >
-->  >
-->