XML file error

[vendikonda sravan]

Hi,

i am getting problem sayin Content is not allowed in prolog. in the fallowing file
I have tryd changing
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
to
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
Still it show ing the same error.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC 
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

- <hibernate-mapping>

- <class name="com.ayansys.action.EmployeeBean" table="employee">

- <id name="Eid" type="int" column="Emp_id">
  <generator class="assigned" /> 
  </id>

- <property name="ename" type="java.lang.String">
  <column name="ename" /> 
  </property>

- <property name="epno" type="java.lang.String">
  <column name="epno" /> 
  </property>

- <property name="esal" type="java.lang.String">
  <column name="esal" /> 
  </property>

- <property name="eemail" type="java.lang.String">
  <column name="eemail" /> 
  </property>

  <property name="date" type="java.lang.String">
  <column name="jdate" /> 
  </property>

  <property name="month" type="java.lang.String">
  <column name="month" /> 
  </property>
  <property name="year" type="java.lang.String">
  <column name="year" /> 
  </property>
  </class>
  </hibernate-mapping>
    

Thanks
sravan V

[Paul Clapham]

It's nothing to do with the encoding declaration. There's a dash before the start tag of your root element, see line 6 in what you posted. Get rid of that.