Xerces Sockets and The root element is required

Hi,
I have a problem with Xerces 1.4.3 saying "The root element is required in a well-formed document.". The story is as follows:
When I read the XML from a file, it works OK.
But when I send the file over a socket stream, and try to parse it in the client side, it gives this silly message.
I am sure that there is no space before <?xml ... ?> and also the xml file is well formed.
I guess someone can say Xerces 2 solves this problem but I am using JBuilder 7 and I could not install the new xerces over old one. If someone knows how to do this please let me know. (Copying the jars into jbuilder7/lib does not seems to work as the file names are different and it wont overwrite the old xerces parser)
Any solution?
Thanks,

saving and parsing is working fine. hehe :)
seems that the parser is somewhat going crazy.
btw. I had written a class extending InputStream, so that it reads more than one file from a socket stream. But I have used it in this save and parse test and it worked so I dont think I have problems with that.
In one forum here, I saw someone saying that changing the version solved his problems about this silly thing. I think I wil try this.
Tankut

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