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"Could not associate XSD! Content is not allowed in prolog".

I am trying to associate a schema with a document. The above message is the result. From much googling, I gather that the schema (and possibly the doc) have a hidden first character, namely, a BOM. And in fact I've looked at the schema with a hex-editor, and discovered the dreaded ef bb bf. Changing the encoding to UTF-16 or iso-8859-1 doesn't fix it. If I remove the offending bytes in the hex editor, I just get gibberish. Same result from using a script to do same.

What to do? And could this have anything to do with the fact that I'm running on XP, editing files that reside on a Solaris box via sftp?

Any and all suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,
bom

It appears to be a network thing - everything works fine if I run Oxygen on the Solaris box. And in fact the extra bytes show up. However, XWindows is prohibitively slow - surely someone has encountered this when editing remotely?

after more investigation, it seems to be the fault of my sftp program. We need to use secure ftp, which Oxygen doesn't support. I found what seemed a nifty solution, a program that lets one mount an sftp connection like a network drive; it seems to be the culprit, adding bytes (including BOM) along the way.

Sorry for the alarm. If anyone has a suggestion as to how to securely (i.e. over SSL) edit remote files, please chime in.

Thanks,
BOM

Hello,

In the current version (7.2) you can use WebDAV over HTTPS. The next version of oXygen will add SFTP support.

Regards,
Sorin