"&x#3c" means the Unicode character 003C, which is the less-than symbol (<).
So the parser has come to what it thinks is the end of your document, and
then it has found an additional "<".  This may mean that you used an empty
element where you should have used an opening tag.  By the way, why not just
write

<TARGETLAYER id="2"/>

PC2

-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Kolodziej [mailto:kkolodziej@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: July 24, 2001 14:08
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  parsing error: &#x3c ???


Dear list,

I am getting the following error/comment:
org.jdom.JDOMException: Error on line 2: Illegal character at end of
document, &#x3c;.

What does "&#x3c" mean?

I know for sure that my original XML request is valid (does the Error on
line 2 refers to my XML code, Java code, ???)

I am using <xsl:choose> and <xsl:when>.  I am getting the above error
ONLY when I remove the <TARGETLAYER> portion of the XSL shown below.
I don't want this tag in my translation but without it the parser seems
to be stuck...Any suggestions? As always, thanks in advance. </Kris>

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 <xsl:choose>     <!-- START 1st choose****** -->
     <xsl:when test="//SpatialQuery/Circle">
   <BUFFER>
      <xsl:attribute name="distance">
       <xsl:value-of select="//Circle/@radius"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <xsl:attribute name="bufferunits">
       <xsl:value-of select="//Circle/@units"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
     <TARGETLAYER>
        <xsl:attribute name="id">2 </xsl:attribute>
     </TARGETLAYER>
   </BUFFER>
    </xsl:when>

 <xsl:when test="//SpatialQuery/Buffer">

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