[xep-support] XEP for Win hot folder issues

David Tolpin dvd at davidashen.net
Tue Feb 7 11:56:32 PST 2006


On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:53:58 +0400, Patrick Goetz <pgoetz at internetbs.com>  
wrote:

> I set up an ActiXEP hot folder which processes XML files; however, I get  
> the following error message:
>
>    exception during formatting: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException:  
> unexpected character after document prolog (found "E") (expected "<")
>

Hi Patrick,

you are facing errors in the .NET XSLT transformation engine, XEP is not  
involved at the stage you are seeing the error messages from.

> However, the SAME XML file in the SAME location:
>
>    1. validates
>    2. can be processed to produce a PDF file using xep.bat
>    3. can be processed to produce a PDF file using XEP Assistant
>    4. validates with 2 other independent validators, one on a linux  
> server.

That's because under all other circumstances, the buggy XSLT  
transformation engine is not involved.

>
> A different file produces the same error with a different letter in  
> place of "E".
>
> ActiXEP seems to assume a DTD folder location:
>
>    If I move the file and DTD directory around so that the DTD directory  
> is a subdirectory of the directory containing the XML (with
>   <!DOCTYPE blue_book SYSTEM "DTD/blue_book.dtd">

It's not XEP, it's Microsoft. It's a known bug, present in different  
flavours in both MSXML and .NET XSLT.

David
 
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