[jdom-interest] org.jdom.JDOMException: Error on line 2 of document file:///C:/src/MC.xml: Content is not allowed in prolog.

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 7:33 PM -0500 4/16/03, David Parker wrote:



>org.jdom.JDOMException: Error on line 2 of document 
>file:///C:/src/MC.xml: Content is not allowed in prolog.
>
>readUtf8Input()
>JDOMException: C:\src\MC.xml is not well-formed.
>
>Error on line 2 of document file:///C:/src/MC.xml: Content is not 
>allowed in prolog.
>org.jdom.JDOMException: Error on line 2 of document 
>file:///C:/src/MC.xml: Content is not allowed in prolog.

It appears that your document is malformed. I don't think this has 
anything to do with JDOM. most likely, the document is not actually 
in the UTF-8 encoding and/or has a few inobvious bytes preceding the 
XML declaration.
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