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Subject: Re: xalan 2.4 transformation to fo - "Content is not allowed in prolog"
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:53:36 -0400

Joseph,

This isn't really an XSLT question, but rather a question about parsing your XML. (So it's out of scope for the list; yet sometimes we go a little astray.)

You should try parsing your files (including, in this case, the stylesheet itself) outside of an XSLT environment to make sure they conform to XML well-formedness rules.

The particular error you are describing, or something like it, I have seen with some parsers when the file has a UTF-8 BOM in the front ... which is kind of an "advanced" nit to try to handle. Apparently parsers vary on their interpretation of what UTF-8 allows. (No doubt we'll hear some clarification from a more knowledgeable person if I don't have this right.)

Yet one can't be sure whether that's even the problem without looking at the file. I only think it might be given the fact that it works in one toolset but not another. Yet I don't even know if your files purport to be UTF-8. You want to make sure the encoding actually used is the same one declared in the XML declaration.

Good luck,
Wendell

At 10:33 PM 8/27/2002, you wrote:

I have xalan 2.4 D1 jar files installed on my IBM USS
environment trying to transform my xml to fo.

My env :
PATH=/usr/lpp/java/IBM/J1.3/bin
CLASSPATH=:.:/u/rstda/xalan/xerces.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/xalan.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/x
ercesImpl.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/xml-apis.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/xsltc.jar:/u/rstda/xala
n/dom.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/sax.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/jaxp-api.jar
JAVA_HOME=usr/lpp/java/IBM/J1.3/

When I execute the command
"java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in stmt2.xml -xsl
stmt2.xsl -out stmt2.fo"

I get the message
"[Fatal Error] stmt2.xsl:1:1: Content is not allowed
in prolog.

file:///u/rstda/xalan/stmt2.xsl; Line 1; Column 1;
XSLT Error (javax.xml.transfo
rm.TransformerConfigurationException):
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
 org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed
in prolog. "

The transformation works fine under Windows
environment using James Clark XSL-T Processor (WinEXE
version).

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