org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog

Question

I have a Java based web service client connected to Java web service (implemented on the Axis1 framework).

I am getting following exception in my log file:

Answer 1

In my case, removing the 'encoding="UTF-8"' attribute altogether worked.

It looks like a character set encoding issue, maybe because your file isn't really in UTF-8.