2887097 - Elster ERiC errors - org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 50; The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

You try to send messages from your FI system in the FOTV transaction in the UStVA/VAT scenario but the message processing fails. You collect XPI Inspector traces in your PI/PO system and notice the following exceptions:

Cannot parse the document.
[EXCEPTION]
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 50; The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:203)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:177)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:400)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:327)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(XMLScanner.java:1472)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanPIData(XMLScanner.java:746)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanPIData(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1014)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLScanner.scanPI(XMLScanner.java:714)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$PrologDriver.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:907)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLDocumentScannerImpl.java:602)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.next(XMLNSDocumentScannerImpl.java:112)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:505)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:842)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(XML11Configuration.java:771)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:141)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:1213)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:643)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl.parse(SAXParserImpl.java:327)
at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:195)
at com.sap.fin.xi.elster.impl.RFCToElsterConverter.convert(RFCToElsterConverter.java:234)
at com.sap.fin.xi.elster.impl.SAPHeaderConverter.convert(SAPHeaderConverter.java:79)
at com.sap.fin.xi.elster.eric.ERiCModule.process(ERiCModule.java:117)
at com.sap.fin.xi.elster.ElsterSendModul.process(ElsterSendModul.java:23)
...
[Fatal Error] :1:50: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.
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