Am getting error as
E [Saxon6.5.5] No character data is allowed between top-level elements
When i use Oxygen XML editor....
My xsl file starts like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions">

- <xsl:template match="List">
  - <xsl:variable name="View">

  <xsl:value-of select="param/View" />
  </xsl:variable>
- <div class="list">
- <h3>
  <xsl:value-of select="$View" />
  </h3>
-[list]
- <xsl:for-each select="View">
- <li>
- <a target="_blank">
- <xsl:attribute name="href">

  <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(URLwMenu,',')" />
  </xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(URLwMenu,',')" />
  </a>
  </li>
  </xsl:for-each>
  </ul>
  </div>
</xsl:template>

My Xml file format is
<List>
   <view>
   </View>
   <view>
   </view>
   .
   .
   .
</List>



please help to solve this problem

If those dashes (-) are in the file then that's what's illegal.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

If you're using version="2.0" in your stylesheet then you should really be using Saxon 9.x rather than Saxon 6.x. You might find that Saxon 9.x gives you a better error message, pointing you to where the offending content appears. As Joe says, if the hyphens are actually there in your source then that is the problem.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference