Is it Xalan bug?

[do...@ms.greatwall.com.tw]

 When I am using Xalan, I encounter a error:

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

I am sure that the style sheet is a well-defined XML document. The first 
line
is just an empty line. I test it on Microsoft's MSXML, it works.

So, why Xalan does not work just due to the first empty line?

Thank you!
 
Sincerely

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董祥麟   Albert, S. L. Dong
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Re: Is it Xalan bug?

[John Keyes <jo...@capeclear.com>]

The first line of your XML file should be:
<?xml version="1.0"?>

See the XML Specification[1] for more details on this.

-John K

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-XMLDecl

On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 04:17, dong@ms.greatwall.com.tw wrote:
>  When I am using Xalan, I encounter a error:
> 
>   The XML declaration may only appear at the very beginning of the 
> document.
> 
> I am sure that the style sheet is a well-defined XML document. The first 
> line
> is just an empty line. I test it on Microsoft's MSXML, it works.
> 
> So, why Xalan does not work just due to the first empty line?
> 
> Thank you!
>  
> Sincerely
> 
> ================================
> 董祥麟   Albert, S. L. Dong
> 大成長城股份有限公司 資訊處 
> 台南縣永康市蔦松二街3號
> TEL:   886-6-2531111  ext. 556
> FAX:   886-6-2534596
> Email: dong@ms.greatwall.com.tw
> ================================
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RE: Is it Xalan bug?

[Paul Brown <pr...@fivesight.com>]

>  When I am using Xalan, I encounter a error:
>  The XML declaration may only appear at the very beginning of the
document.

The XML declaration must be at the VERY beginning of the file -- no
whitespace or anything else is allowed before the declaration.  Microsoft's
parser is broken to tolerate the leading whitespace.

	-- Paul