Parsing Exception with JAXB 1.0.6 : XML files containing UTF-8 characters

[sumitha sudhakar]

Hi,

My application is using JAXB 1.0.6 and JDK 1.4, When am trying to parse some XML files which contatining some UTF-8 characters, parsing has failed.
Here is the code which am using

  
Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
unmarshaller.setValidating(bvalidate);
byte[] byteArray = strXMLFile.getBytes(); 
ByteArrayInputStream source = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArray);
InputSource input = new InputSource(source);
input.setEncoding("UTF-8");
Object obj = unmarshaller.unmarshal(input);
 

this throws the following exception:
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javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException: Content is not allowed in prolog.
- with linked exception:
[org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.]
Please help me out. how can i unmarshall an XML file having UTF 8 char encoded.

[William Brogden]

Why are you so sure the problem is UTF-8?

Content is not allowed in prolog.

can simply mean the first character in the stream is not a < - the parser expects the first line to start <?xml

If this was my problem I would take a close look at the initial characters.

Bill