SAXParseException in OSM2PO

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I am getting the following error message when trying to utilise an osm pbf from the Geofabrik (latest Europe file):

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 1; columnNumber: 1; Content is not allowed in prolog.

The information on it seem to be more Java related than OSM, but I might be mistaken and it has something to do with white spaces in the osm file.

Can somebody help here?

The file is not corrupted. Admittedly, I didn't check before. So, I downloaded the pbf file again and this time I checked the md5sum - Same error message. — Thomas Becker, Commented Dec 2, 2015 at 13:37

Carsten · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-04 19:00:25Z

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Ok, there are three possible reasons:

answered Dec 4, 2015 at 19:00

Carsten

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Hi Carsten, reason was, that I only downloaded the SR1. Totally new to osm2po I thought its the whole deal. When I saw some plugins missing in the warnings it dawned on me that something was not right. Maybe a hint that both of the downloads are needed would help. Guess, I am the only one who made that mistake. ;)
– Thomas Becker
Commented Dec 7, 2015 at 17:41
the plugins.jar could not be found. I just copy the main JAR file... duh !
– Magno C
Commented Oct 24, 2017 at 17:31

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arni990 · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-23 08:36:40Z

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I had the same error message. The problem was that I had a long path to the jar having some spaces and special characters like # or !.

answered Oct 23, 2016 at 8:36

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