Reference is not allowed in prolog
Please help me to find the reason for this exception ,am using following jars,
core-renderer.jar
itext-paulo-155.jar
firstdoc.xhtml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>My First Document</title>
<style type="text/css"> b { color: green; } </style>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<b>Greetings Earthlings!</b>
We've come for your Java.
</p>
</body>
</html>
JAVA :
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
public class Sample1 {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, DocumentException {
String inputFile = "C:/Users/Joseph.M/WorkPlace_Struts2/Fly-Sauccer/src/test/pdf/firstdoc.xhtml";
String url = new File(inputFile).toURI().toURL().toString();
String outputFile = "C:/Users/Joseph.M/WorkPlace_Struts2/Fly-Sauccer/src/test/pdf/firstdoc.pdf";
OutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(outputFile);
ITextRenderer renderer = new ITextRenderer();
renderer.setDocument(url);
renderer.layout();
renderer.createPDF(os);
os.close();
}
}
Exception :
plumbing.render INFO:: Using CSS implementation from: org.xhtmlrenderer.context.StyleReference
plumbing.load INFO:: SAX XMLReader in use (parser): com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser
plumbing.load INFO:: SAX XMLReader in use (parser): com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser
plumbing.load INFO:: SAX XMLReader in use (parser): com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser
plumbing.load INFO:: SAX XMLReader in use (parser): com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser
plumbing.load INFO:: SAX XMLReader in use (parser): com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser
plumbing.load INFO:: SAX XMLReader in use (parser): com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.SAXParser
plumbing.load INFO:: Reference is not allowed in prolog.
ERROR: 'Reference is not allowed in prolog.'
plumbing.exception WARNING:: Unhandled exception. Can't load the XML resource (using TRaX transformer). org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 2; Reference is not allowed in prolog.
Exception in thread "main" org.xhtmlrenderer.util.XRRuntimeException: Can't load the XML resource (using TRaX transformer). org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 2; Reference is not allowed in prolog.
at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource$XMLResourceBuilder.createXMLResource(XMLResource.java:191)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource.load(XMLResource.java:71)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.swing.NaiveUserAgent.getXMLResource(NaiveUserAgent.java:118)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.loadDocument(ITextRenderer.java:98)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.setDocument(ITextRenderer.java:102)
at test.pdf.Sample1.main(Sample1.java:23)
Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 2; Reference is not allowed in prolog.
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transform(Unknown Source)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.resource.XMLResource$XMLResourceBuilder.createXMLResource(XMLResource.java:189)
... 5 more
Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 2; Reference is not allowed in prolog.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl.transformIdentity(Unknown Source)
Answer
Use < and > instead of
< and >
You do not have to escape XML special characters here.