<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> creting problem with mozilla firefox

[jariwaladivyesh]

Hi frnds,

i have simple XML doc

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="test.xsl"?>
<data>
<name> Divyesh Jariala</name>
</data>

and test.xsl

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/data">
<xsl:text> My name is : <xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="data/name" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


this works fine with IE...but when i trying to run it with mozilla firefox ...it gives me an error

XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Line Number 3, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
^

what might be the problem?

Thanx in advance

Divyesh

[drhowarddrfine]

xml declaration not at start of external entity
Line Number 3

Isn't that the problem? Are you sure you have no other characters before the declaration? It must be on line one.

[jariwaladivyesh]

hi,

I have two blank lines at the start

something like

1.
2.
3. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

actually, this XML is generating from my jsp files, so it contains two blank lines.,
one for page directive and another for include directive

n i don't know why its taking this two blank lines

So, is this the problem?

[jkmyoung]

Yes, you must remove these 2 lines for it to be valid xml.