Re: [xsl] xalan 2.4 transformation to fo - "Content is not allowed in prolog"

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joseph,

This isn't really an XSLT question, but rather a question about parsing 
your XML. (So it's out of scope for the list; yet sometimes we go a little 
astray.)

You should try parsing your files (including, in this case, the stylesheet 
itself) outside of an XSLT environment to make sure they conform to XML 
well-formedness rules.

The particular error you are describing, or something like it, I have seen 
with some parsers when the file has a UTF-8 BOM in the front ... which is 
kind of an "advanced" nit to try to handle. Apparently parsers vary on 
their interpretation of what UTF-8 allows. (No doubt we'll hear some 
clarification from a more knowledgeable person if I don't have this right.)

Yet one can't be sure whether that's even the problem without looking at 
the file. I only think it might be given the fact that it works in one 
toolset but not another. Yet I don't even know if your files purport to be 
UTF-8. You want to make sure the encoding actually used is the same one 
declared in the XML declaration.

Good luck,
Wendell

At 10:33 PM 8/27/2002, you wrote:
> I have xalan 2.4 D1 jar files installed on my IBM USS
> environment trying to transform my xml to fo.
>
> My env :
> PATH=/usr/lpp/java/IBM/J1.3/bin
> CLASSPATH=:.:/u/rstda/xalan/xerces.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/xalan.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/x
> ercesImpl.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/xml-apis.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/xsltc.jar:/u/rstda/xala
> n/dom.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/sax.jar:/u/rstda/xalan/jaxp-api.jar
> JAVA_HOME=usr/lpp/java/IBM/J1.3/
>
>
>
> When I execute the command
> "java org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process -in stmt2.xml -xsl
> stmt2.xsl -out stmt2.fo"
>
> I get the message
> "[Fatal Error] stmt2.xsl:1:1: Content is not allowed
> in prolog.
>
> file:///u/rstda/xalan/stmt2.xsl; Line 1; Column 1;
> XSLT Error (javax.xml.transfo
> rm.TransformerConfigurationException):
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:
>  org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed
> in prolog. "
>
> The transformation works fine under Windows
> environment using James Clark XSL-T Processor (WinEXE
> version).


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