Org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Reference is not allowed in prolog

Question

Hi,
I have been using DocumentBuilder to parse an xml string in our application but now came up with this exception:
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Reference is not allowed in prolog
When I looked at the xml data, I found that it does not have a prolog in it. I also found that the data contains end of line character ""
""
" in it.
This the xml to be parsed: (Qutoted them to view the unicodes in xml)
"<dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<dc:title xml:lang="en">Test metadata</dc:title>
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<dc:description xml:lang="en">Blah</dc:description>
<dc:creator>BEGIN:vcard
FN:Jan Austin
ORG:IBalahblahLtd
EMAIL:[email protected]
END:vcard</dc:creator>
<dc:format>text/html</dc:format>
<dc:identifier>http://gg.com/</dc:identifier>
<dc:subject>Medicine and Dentistry</dc:subject>
</dc:dc>"
And in the class, I used,
DocumentBuilderFactory factory =  DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
Document document = builder.parse(file);I can not change the xml data to be parsed as the application gets this data from other targets through a web service.
So, can anyone provide any suggestions to solve this issue please?
Thanks,
Shiv.

Answer 1

I have tried various options by
1. factory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(true);
2. factory.setValidation(false);
But, none of them seems to work.
Could anyone please giv me atleast a gist abt where to look about?
Cheers,
Shiv.