process instruction declaration

hi

i have xml declaration for every soap messages , so do i have to delete
them  in order to get a well form xml when ever i send query

thanks







-----Original Message-----
This error message is coming from the XML parser, not from Saxon itself.

It probably means that there is an XML declaration such as <?xml
version="1.0"?> somewhere other than at the start of your XML file, which
means the XML is not well-formed.

Michael Kay
Saxonica Limited




-----Original Message-----


 the following error message occure every time try to submite
 xquery usining
 saxon 7.9
 the program is client server application impleminting using java

 thanks





 [Fatal Error] :7:6: The processing instruction target matching
 "[xX][mM][lL]" is
  not allowed.
 Parsing failure: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The
 processing instruction
 targe
 t matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.