Re: The XML declaration may only appear at the very beginning of the document

[Jorg Heymans]

maybe you have some non-visible characters before your <?xml 
version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> or some process is inserting them?

Lyteck Lynhiavu wrote:

I am trying to publish xml to pdf. the process is established and works 
most of the time.

Would someone know why I sometimes get the cocoon error "The XML 
declaration may only appear at the very beginning of the document." on 
perfecly valid XML?

    Description:org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException: Could not read
    resource
    file:/D:/Publisher/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1/webapps/cocoon/test/test.xml:
    org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The XML declaration may only appear
    at the very beginning of the document.
The XML declaration is indeed at the top and a sample fragment is below:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "company x//DTD company x Technical
    Publication//EN" "c:\documentum\xml applications\companyx.dtd"
    [<!ENTITY fr PUBLIC "-//company x//Contact fr//EN" "fr.xml">
    <!ENTITY uk PUBLIC "-//company x//Contact uk//EN" "uk.xml">
    ]>
    <!--ArborText, Inc., 1988-2001, v.4002-->
I hope this is a common enough error with a resolution?

The cocoon server is Windows to which I am supplying zipped xml/jpgs 
remotely via the browser. I don't have much information beyond that.

Thanks very much, Lyteck