Nothing like answering your own posts, right?:-) Doing a bunch of different google searches, I was able to find one or two that was close to what it looked like I was encountering. Before doing the ftp get on the windoze box, if I issue a 'quote site sbd=(ibm-1047,iso8859-1)' I get much further. At least now it is parsing the file, as it is spitting out an error with one of the xml elements that I can readily see. -- Dave On 10/13/2017 10:40 AM, Dave Day wrote: 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