Why is the openjdk Stax Parser failing reading a rdf file?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

This (large, so no tostring workarounds)
http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.rdf.zip
file is throwing this exception:
javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.XMLStreamReaderImpl.next(XMLStreamReaderImpl.java:591)
(my code)…

when i try to read it with the normal:

        XMLInputFactory f = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
        XMLStreamReader r = f.createXMLStreamReader(s);
        while(r.hasNext()) {
            System.out.println(r.next());
        }

No byte order marks i can see before the < .

#2

ZipInputStream needs to call getNextEntry to position its cursor :stuck_out_tongue:

If you don’t it just gives the same (illegal) byte, over, and over and over again.

#3

Why don’t you GZ it, instead of ZIP?

#4

It’s not mine. It’s the Gutemberg project that provides it, this page in fact: