"Pos  00188" refers to the 188th character of the file, which in this case
appears to be the end of the DOCTYPE declaration. Perhaps the next
characters are invalid (should be an opening <ead> tag) or maybe NoteTab's
not happy about the current system identifier for the DTD
("/ead/shared/ead/ead.dtd"). Try a full path, eg.
"c:/ead/shared/ead/ead.dtd" or try reversing the forward slashes, or both,
eg. "c:\ead\shared\ead\ead.dtd"

Hope that helps!
Matt Hillyard
A2A Team at the Public Record Office, London


-----Original Message-----
From: Thiesen, John [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 04 September 2002 01:40
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Note Tab EAD help


I've given up on using Wordperfect and switched to NoteTab. Whenever I try
to "Parse and Validate" a document, I get the following totally opaque
error message:

C:\ead\EADFiles\berlin.xml
        Invalid at the top level of the document.
        URL: file:///C:/ead/EADFiles/berlin.xml
        Line 00001: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE ead
PUBLIC
"-//Society of American Archivists//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival
Description (EAD) Version 1.0)//EN" "/ead/shared/ead/ead.dtd">
        Pos  00188:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------^


What in the world is this supposed to mean??

John D. Thiesen
Archivist and Co-director of Libraries
Mennonite Library and Archives
Bethel College
300 E. 27th St.
North Newton, KS  67117-0531
voice (316) 284-5360
fax (316) 284-5843
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