Greetings list, I'm getting the following error when I try to create a new database using the Basex gui on windows. "No text allowed before root element." This is the error I get if I set the parsing option to 'use internal XML parser'. If I uncheck that, I get "Content is not allowed in prolog." The file I am using as input does not have a prolog statement. If I look at the .log folder, there is nothing in there. I suspect that the FTP process I used (microsoft ftp command from a dos window) to move the data from an IBM mainframe to my desktop has done something to the file. Isn't there some way to turn on a diagnostic feature to see exactly what the parsing issue is? I don't see anything in the file before the root element using Notepad. Thanks for any help, -- Dave Day