RE: reading a text file and putting out an xml file us

> Can someone please let me know if I am doing something wrong here?

This isn't an XSLT problem, it's an XML problem. Saxon is telling you quite
clearly that the error comes from the XML parser.

> > SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: Content is not allowed in
prolog.
> > While processing bk1-im1.tif: Run-time errors were reported

It looks as if the XML parser is trying to parse the content of bk1-im1.tif
as XML and failing. Perhaps that's because you have an entity reference
&im1; somewhere in your source - that's not allowed with unparsed entities.
However, I can only speculate.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 
> 
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 2:23 PM, a kusa <akusa8@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Thank you. This worked.
> >
> > But I have anther problem. I am applying a transformation 
> style sheets 
> > to another set of xml files to generate another xml output.
> > These files have images as entities in beginning:
> >
> > <!DOCTYPE books[
> > <!NOTATION ccitt4 PUBLIC '-//USA-DOD//NOTATION CCITT Group4 
> > Facsimile//EN' > <!ENTITY im1 SYSTEM "bk1-im1.tif" NDATA ccitt4> 
> > <!ENTITY im2 SYSTEM "bk1-im2.tif" NDATA ccitt4> ]>