Title: another validation problem&#8230;
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# another validation problem…

 *  Resolved [jelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jelly/)
 * (@jelly)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/)
 * I have a problem getting my kubrick-based site to validate (uri: [http://laugesen.org/wordpress/](http://laugesen.org/wordpress/)).
   The problem is, that somewhere in the parsing, something puts an illegal character
   in the very beginning of the code:
    “Line 1, column 0: character “” not allowed
   in prolog
 * ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “[http://www&#8221](http://www&#8221);
 * – does anyone have an idea which file to look at?
 * (the problem only occurs in the theme that is active – I suppose it’ll be in 
   one of the files in the theme-folder?)
 * 🙂 Jesper

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 *  [exploding-boy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exploding-boy/)
 * (@exploding-boy)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-230640)
 * There is some type of space or character before your DOCTYPE. On your current
   them, go to your header.php and remove any space before <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC“-//
   W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0…
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-230642)
 * Did you open/edit your `header.php` ?
 *  Thread Starter [jelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jelly/)
 * (@jelly)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-230643)
 * [@exploding-boy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exploding-boy/): If only
   it was that simple 🙂
    I’ve already checked if that was the case – and it isn’t…
   I’ve even replaced the file in it’s enterity, using c/p via notepad to eliminate
   all possibilities of a ‘invisible’ sign to be transfered on…
 *  Thread Starter [jelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jelly/)
 * (@jelly)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-230644)
 * [@moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/): yes – the theme is build
   on a localised version of kubrick
 *  [tobbaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbaz/)
 * (@tobbaz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231306)
 * No solution for this one? 🙁
 * I have the exactly same problem, but not just with the first line, in the body
   text too.
 * [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//tobiasbergius.se/blogg/](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//tobiasbergius.se/blogg/)
 * There’s nothing before the doctype and I’ve tried both UTF-8 and UTF-8 without
   BOM.
 * Why doesn’t it work?!
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231307)
 * Check the theme’s header.php file for blank spaces or odd characters before the!
   DOCTYPE tag. If it looks fine, see if disabling all plugins creates any improvement.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231308)
 * tobbaz – what program are you using to edit your files ?
 * If it is anything made by Adobe or Macromedia, they are very probably causing
   the problems.
 *  [tobbaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbaz/)
 * (@tobbaz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231309)
 * Thanks for quick replies.
 * macmanx: No characters before the doctype. No difference when disabling all plugins.
 * podz: Notepad++
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231310)
 * Can you post just that part of your file over at [http://www.phpfi.com](http://www.phpfi.com)?
 *  [tobbaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbaz/)
 * (@tobbaz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231311)
 * [http://www.phpfi.com/69466](http://www.phpfi.com/69466)
 * There you go.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231312)
 * Nothing wrong……
 * We’ve seen these ‘prolog’ problems here before, but with feeds. And with those
   we can never establish what the problem is – but for some reason it literally
   just goes away. I have had this with my feeds before too – and they are fine 
   now. It took a couple of days to go away.
    Before your page actually outputs 
   to the screen, the code goes through any number of files so I guess one of them
   is choking on something strange but it’ll clear it’s throat soon. The only consolation
   being that those are the only 2 errors and your page does otherwise validate.
 *  [tobbaz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tobbaz/)
 * (@tobbaz)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231313)
 * Yah, I had the same problem with my feed too. And it just went away. So I guess
   I’ll just wait then. 🙂
 * Thanks for you help. 🙂
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231316)
 * Check for any strange characters before `<?php ` in the index.php file in your
   blog root (not your theme’s index.php file).
 *  Thread Starter [jelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jelly/)
 * (@jelly)
 * [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231326)
 * thanx for the help so far – Even though my problem persists…
 * [@podz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/): using ultraedit
    [@macmanx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/):
   no strange characters in root/index.php
 * … I guess I have to wait a few more days to see if it’ll pass??? (the absolute
   strangest advice on how to deal with a software problem I’ve received so far 
   😉 )
 *  Thread Starter [jelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jelly/)
 * (@jelly)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-validation-problem/#post-231432)
 * FYI: the problem disappeared after updating to WP 1.5.2. 🙂 Jesper

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