RE: Top Level Element Error

Andrew,

I don't use Notepad, I use XML Spy to edit XML and
XSLT files. 


> I kept getting "...Only one top level element is
> allowed in an XML document. Error processing
resource"
> even though I have checked many times that there is
> only one top level element which is <xsl:stylesheet>
> Can someone help? Here's the xslt file.


If I remember correctly, there is a 'feature' of the
Crimson XML parser
which means it treats the BOM (byte order mark) at the
start of UTF-16
encoded file as text, and so throws an error when it
encounters your
opening <xsl:stylesheet> element.  This is compounded
by the fact that
Notepad inserts a BOM even if you save the file as
UTF-8 (not sure why,
or what use it would be).

It's possible then that you are using Notepad and
saving you file as
either UTF-8/UTF-16, and then using Crimson to parse
it.  The fix is to
use Xerces instead of Crimson (and you should never
use Notepad ;)

cheers
andrew 



		
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