Hi,

i got the follwing error and i could not proceed.



11:50:14,185 INFO Configuration:332 - Mapping resource: persistance/MyCompany.h
bm.xml
11:50:14,216 ERROR XMLHelper:48 - Error parsing XML: XML InputStream(2) The proc
essing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
11:50:14,216 ERROR Configuration:296 - Could not configure datastore from input
stream
org.dom4j.DocumentException: Error on line 2 of document : The processing instr
uction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed. Nested exception: The proc
essing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:355)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:
287)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addResource(Configuration.java:337
)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:102
7)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.doConfigure(Configuration.java:983
)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:911)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.configure(Configuration.java:897)
at HibernatePOJO.update(HibernatePOJO.java:163)
at HibernatePOJO.main(HibernatePOJO.java:204)
Nested exception:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][
mM][lL]" is not allowed.
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.dom4j.io.SAXReader.read(SAXReader.java:339)
at net.sf.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.addInputStream(Configuration.java:
287)




Any Idea?

regards,
Basha

make sure you don't have a messed up processing instruction at the top of persistance/MyCompany.hbm.xml ... and it would help if you'd post the contents of persistance/MyCompany.hbm.xml .

Hi,
thanks for the reply

the following is the XML file i am using :


<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">


<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="MyCompany" table="Company">
<property column="companyid" name="companyid" type="java.lang.String"/>
<property column="companyname" name="companyname" type="java.lang.String"/>
<property column="location" name="location" type="java.lang.String"/>
<property column="owner" name="owner" type="java.lang.String"/>
</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

i took it from a book and modyfied according to my class.

any other changes i need to do?
regards
Basha

Your mapping refers the wrong dtd. Use the following header for your mapping :


The dtd you are using is the one to configure the Hibernate Factory.

This XML parsing error often occur when you have white spaces between the beginning of the file and the processing instruction (<?xml ...?>).