Hi,

Facing one weird issue during our XSLT processing. We are using XSLT in Oracle Service Bus, so not sure of the kind of XSLT processor/parser being used in this case.

Our case, XSLT is used to remove the namespaces from the input XML. For one of the XML structure, we are getting the following error.
javax.xml.transform.TransformerException:com.sun.o rg.apache.xml.internal.utils.WrappedRuntimeExcepti on:Content is not Allowed in Prolog


I verified that there are no extra contents in prolog. But the entire XML is tab indented. The following is the structure of the XML. When i remove one of the tab for <element1> XSLT is working fine as expected.

2tabs <RootElement>
2tabs <element1>
3tabs <element2>
and so on...3 tabs for all other elements.


Any insights into this issue? and How can we removed the tabs in the input xml using XSLT(1.0)?

Thanks & Regards
Siva

The message "Content is not Allowed in Prolog" is a very common one produced by the SUN JDK XML parser: it basically means (as far as I can tell) that the file has been successfully opened, but the parser can't make head or tail of what it finds at the start of the file. This can be because there is whitespace before the XML declaration, or because of byte order marks, or because of encoding issues.

If the XML parser can't process the file, then you can't do anything about it using XSLT, because XSLT can only process stuff that makes it past the XML parser.

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