[oXygen-user] Re: "content is not allowed in prolog" using Oxygen

[Oliver Meyer]

Hi Joshua,

I receive a digest and read the mail using outlook. In my view the byte sequence EF BB BF precedeces the first character of your XML file. That is the BOM for UTF-8 (http://www.unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#BOM) and that content is correct XML (sec. 4.3.3 of XML Spec: ... entities encoded in UTF-8 MAY begin with the Byte Order Mark ... )
Usually Oxygen handles encoding very well, so maybe you use some other editor in your processing chain that is not that standard conform and adds another BOM. I had similar problems using Ultraedit.

HTH
Oliver

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> I'm trying to use Oxygen to edit MXML files (Macromedia Flex). 
> Everything works fine except that this error always appears: 
> content is 
> not allowed in prolog. What's up with this? Here's the line 
> it chokes on:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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> This is the way all Flex files start and there don't seem to be any 
> problems there. Anybody know what's up?