build failed due to restriction of target matching instruction

[riyaz udeen]

hye everyone. I am a new bee in ant. i am using ant 1.6.5. i wrote a build file for my project(jspbook) from the book - " servlets and jsp " by jayson falkner.I exactly copied the build file from the book and placed it in my jspbook folder inside webapps under tomcat 5.5.9.

i got the message in cmd as:
"D:\Tomcat 5.5.9\webapps\jspbook\build.xml:2: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed."

here is my build.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="jspbook" default="build" basedir=".">
<target name="build">
<echo>Starting Build [JSP BOOK - http://www.jspbook.com] </echo>
<!-- Turn Tomcat Off -->
<antcall target="tomcatOff"/>
<!--compile Everything -->
<antcall target ="compile"/>
<!--Turn Tomcat on -->
<antcall target="tomcatOn"/>
<echo>Build Finished [JSP BOOK - http://www.jspbook.com] </echo>
</target>

<target name="tomcatOff">
<echo>Turning Off Tomcat [http://www.jspbook.com]</echo>
<exec executable="bash" os="Windows">
<arg value="../../bin/shutdown.bat"/>
</exec>
<exec executable="bash" os="Linux">
<arg value="../../bin/shutdown.sh"/>
</exec>
</target>

<target name="tomcatOn">
<echo>starting Tomcat [http://www.jspbook.com]</echo>
<exec executable="bash" os="Windows">
<arg value="../../bin/startup.bat"/>
</exec>
<exec executable="bash" os="Linux">
<arg value="../../bin/startup.sh"/>
</exec>
</target>

<target name="compile">
<echo>Compiling Book's Examples [http://www.jspbook.com] </echo>
<javac
srcdir="WEB-INF/classes"
extdirs="WEB-INF/lib:../../common/lib"
classpath="../../common/lib/servlet.jar"
depreciation="yes"
verbose="no">
<include name="com/jspbook/**"/>
</javac>
</target>
</project>

Kindly tell me what is wrong and how can i trouble shoot it. thanks fo reading.

[Carol Enderlin]

You can google on the error message and find a bunch of suggestions.

Make sure you don't have any spaces or blank lines before "<?xml version="1.0" ?>"

I pasted your build.xml into a new file and it works fine for me with ant 1.6.5. If I put a space or a blank line before "<?xml version="1.0" ?>"
I get the error you got.

If that doesn't work, you could try removing that line completely.

[riyaz udeen]

hye carol. thank you bravo.

[bharath chary]

Thanks Carol Enderlin , It is true, when copying from text book or any online tutorial some special characters may be copied (which may be used for formatting in books or tutorials blogs), but we need to make sure these characters are trimmed off before pasting it into our project. some IDE's will do this automatically.