Nothing like answering your own posts, right?:-)

Doing a bunch of different google searches, I was able to find one or two that was close to what it looked like I was encountering.

Before doing the ftp get on the windoze box, if I issue a 'quote site sbd=(ibm-1047,iso8859-1)'

I get much further.

At least now it is parsing the file, as it is spitting out an error with one of the xml elements that I can readily see.

-- Dave

On 10/13/2017 10:40 AM, Dave Day wrote:     Greetings list,

I'm getting the following error when I try to create a new database using the Basex gui on windows.

"No text allowed before root element."

This is the error I get if I set the parsing option to 'use internal XML parser'.

If I uncheck that, I get

"Content is not allowed in prolog."

The  file I am using as input does not have a prolog statement.

If I look at the .log folder, there is nothing in there.

I suspect that the FTP process I used (microsoft ftp command from a dos window)  to move the data from an IBM mainframe to my desktop has done something to the file.

Isn't there some way to turn on a diagnostic feature to see exactly what the parsing issue is?  I don't see anything in the file before the root element using Notepad.

Thanks for any help,

-- Dave Day