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

Even I had faced a similar problem. Reason was some garbage character at the beginning of the file.

Fix : Just open the file in a text editor(tested on Sublime text) remove any indent if any in the file and copy paste all the content of the file in a new file and save it. Thats it!. When I ran the new file it ran without any parsing errors.