This error message is coming from the XML parser, not from Saxon itself.

It probably means that there is an XML declaration such as <?xml
version="1.0"?> somewhere other than at the start of your XML file, which
means the XML is not well-formed.

Michael Kay
Saxonica Limited


> -----Original Message-----
> From: 04083259@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:04083259@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 March 2005 20:20
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Strip processing instruction declaration 
> 
> the following error message occure every time try to submite 
> xquery usining
> saxon 7.9
> the program is client server application impleminting using java
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> [Fatal Error] :7:6: The processing instruction target matching
> "[xX][mM][lL]" is
>  not allowed.
> Parsing failure: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The 
> processing instruction
> targe
> t matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.