Try removing any linebreaks in the DOCTYPE declaration so that it 
appears on one line and doesn't wrap.  Sometimes artificial linebreaks 
can cause this type of error.

On 4/5/2010 8:23 AM, Anna Kresmer wrote:
> Kevin,
>     Thanks for responding. Unfortunately, I checked and there was already a
> space in the DOCTYPE where you highlighted it. I messed around with it,
> even adding an extra blank line and nothing has changed. Same error.  Here
> is what the top of my EAD file currently looks like:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="eadcbs5.xsl"?>
> <!DOCTYPE ead PUBLIC "+//ISBN 1-931666-00-8//DTD ead.dtd (Encoded Archival
> Description (EAD) Version 2002)//EN" "ead.dtd">
>
> <ead relatedencoding="MARC21">
>    <eadheader langencoding="iso639-2b" audience="internal"
> 	scriptencoding="iso15924" relatedencoding="MARC21"
> repositoryencoding="iso15511"
> 	countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" id="a0">
>
> Maybe I have missed something?
>
> ~Anna