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----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 17:26 Subject: RE: Encoding problem or what else? > > However when I run my transformation one of the two produces > > the following > > saxon error: > > > > SXXP0003: Error reported by XML parser: Document root element > > is missing. > > > > It's actually a Xerces error: Saxon's just the messenger. > > I've never worked out exactly what it means, it seems to be something of a > catch-all error to indicate that the file exists but Xerces hasn't been able > to start parsing it. I'm a little surprised that it should be produced for > an encoding problem, but it's not impossible, as it does seem to cover quite > a range of conditions. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > Hello Micheal, i checked the file with an HEX editor and it turned out that there are three bytes whose hex code is EF BB BF at the beginning of the offending file. I guess this must be the reason why the parser is complaining, though I am still not clear if this is some sort of multi-byte character or just some junk that happens to be there. If I open the file with Wordpad, these characters do not show up at all. Thanks, Flavio
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