OK thanks! It was because of spurious whitespaces before the xml declaration. It runs well now...;-)
Cyril. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joerg Heinicke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:15 AM Subject: Re: pb with http request > This has nothing to do with the example, it's a common error message, > when having the Xril.ML declaration not as the absolutely first thing in the > XML file. There must not be any whitespaces or other characters in front > of the XML declaration and it has to be in the form as at > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-prolog-dtd. Watch for case-sensitivity > too. Have a look in all the related files to fix the bug. > > cyril vidal wrote: > > Hy, > > > > I just was trying to run the example wrotten by Steve Punk in "Getting > > started with Cocoon 2" http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2002/07/10/cocoon2.html > > > > More precisely, the last example that calculates a factorial from a > > numeric value submitted via HTTP POST. > > > > Here's the sitemap: > > > > <map:sitemap xmlns:map="http://apache.org/cocoon/sitemap/1.0"> > > <snip/> > > > </map:sitemap> > > > > > > and here's the file mystylesheet.xsl that I've copied in integrality > > from the original source: > > > > > > <?xml version="1.0"?> > > This one seems to be ok, but I can't see whether there are any > whitespaces in the file of course. > > > > > <!-- Author: Steven P. Punte "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" --> > > > > <!-- Description: Computes Factorial --> > > > > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" > > <snip/> > > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > > > > > > > When I run this by pointing my browser to http://localhost/mypage?input=5 > > > > I receive the following error message: > > > > *description* _org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Exception in > > creating Transform Handler: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The XML > > declaration may only appear at the very beginning of the document._ > > > > _I _don't understand why this occurs. Can you help me please? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Cyril Vidal > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Web: http://www.planetexml.com > > Regards, > > Joerg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Please check that your question has not already been answered in the > FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>