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That error indicates that the XML declaration is mistaken for a process instruction<br />
&lt;?xml ....<br />
<br />
Most plausible reason is that there is something before it<br />
- could be a double declaration<br />
- could simply be the BOM<br />
- could be some non allowed namespace<br />
-... or you could have that declaration in the middle because you concatenated two XML documents<br />
<br />
without a document, we can not help you better
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That error indicates that the XML declaration is mistaken for a process instruction
<?xml ....

Most plausible reason is that there is something before it
- could be a double declaration
- could simply be the BOM
- could be some non allowed namespace
-... or you could have that declaration in the middle because you concatenated two XML documents

without a document, we can not help you better

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Ok. &nbsp;Here is the file to look at. &nbsp;Once resolved I'll remove it and there's nothing really in there accept email accounts.<br />
<br />
lmk? &nbsp;<br />
<br />
thx<br />
<br />
metalfubar<br />
<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/01_w02/891449/PIE-2015-01-06NEW10.xml" target="_blank" class="file-inline" title="PIE-2015-01-06NEW10.xml (4 KB)"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 512 512"><path d="M67.508 468.467c-58.005-58.013-58.016-151.92 0-209.943l225.011-225.04c44.643-44.645 117.279-44.645 161.92 0 44.743 44.749 44.753 117.186 0 161.944l-189.465 189.49c-31.41 31.413-82.518 31.412-113.926.001-31.479-31.482-31.49-82.453 0-113.944L311.51 110.491c4.687-4.687 12.286-4.687 16.972 0l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.685 12.283 0 16.969L184.983 304.917c-12.724 12.724-12.73 33.328 0 46.058 12.696 12.697 33.356 12.699 46.054-.001l189.465-189.489c25.987-25.989 25.994-68.06.001-94.056-25.931-25.934-68.119-25.932-94.049 0l-225.01 225.039c-39.249 39.252-39.258 102.795-.001 142.057 39.285 39.29 102.885 39.287 142.162-.028A739446.174 739446.174 0 0 1 439.497 238.49c4.686-4.687 12.282-4.684 16.969.004l16.967 16.971c4.685 4.686 4.689 12.279.004 16.965a755654.128 755654.128 0 0 0-195.881 195.996c-58.034 58.092-152.004 58.093-210.048.041z"/></svg>PIE-2015-01-06NEW10.xml</a>
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Ok.  Here is the file to look at.  Once resolved I'll remove it and there's nothing really in there accept email accounts.

lmk?  

thx

metalfubar
PIE-2015-01-06NEW10.xml [https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2015/01_w02/891449/PIE-2015-01-06NEW10.xml]

PIE-2015-01-06NEW10.xml

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Hey there,<br />
<br />
I'm trying to post an xml validation for our company. &nbsp;I'm trying to stage a test to our staging server with 10 email addresses. &nbsp;The error i'm getting is: &nbsp; The processing instruction target matching &quot;[xX][mM][lL]&quot; is not allowed.<br />
<br />
type: &nbsp;well formed<br />
<br />
loc: &nbsp;2,6<br />
<br />
attached is a screen shot.<br />
<br />
please help!<br />
<br />
Metalfubar<br />
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testcorefail.png

Hey there,

I'm trying to post an xml validation for our company.  I'm trying to stage a test to our staging server with 10 email addresses.  The error i'm getting is:   The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

type:  well formed

loc:  2,6

attached is a screen shot.

please help!

Metalfubar

XML validation issue

Extensible Markup Language (XML) refers to the encoding of documents such that they can be read by both machines and humans. XML documents use tags to show the beginning and end of a set of data. XML is used extensively on websites to show volumes of data, and is the default for a number of office productivity suites. This topic includes discussions of XML-related technologies, such as XQuery (the XML Query language), XPath (the XML Path language), XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations), XLink (the XML Linking language) and XPointer (the XML Pointer language).