text/xmldecl not at the beginning of input

Question

I am trying to insert xml file in database but i am getting this error text/xmldecl not at the beginning of input.

Here is the query:

INSERT [EMR].[tblTemplateForm]
 (FormXML)
 VALUES ( CAST('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><EMR>
  <CustomTextBox xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <Text>0.0</Text>
    <Type>TextBox</Type>
    <Width>300</Width>
    <id>txt1</id>
    <Label>POG(LMP)</Label>
    <LabelWidth>200</LabelWidth>
    <labelFontStyle>normal</labelFontStyle>
    <labelFontWeight>normal</labelFontWeight>
    <labelFontColor>Black</labelFontColor>
    <CaptionOrientation>Horizontal</CaptionOrientation>
    <NewControl>false</NewControl>
    <NumericText>0</NumericText>
    <TextMode>Singleline</TextMode>
    <rows>0</rows>
    <columns>0</columns>
  </CustomTextBox><?xml version="1.0"?>
  <CustomNumericTextBox xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <Type>NumericTxtBox</Type>
    <Width>500</Width>
    <id>numTxt1</id>
    <Label>numTxt1</Label>
    <LabelWidth>200</LabelWidth>
    <labelFontStyle>normal</labelFontStyle>
    <labelFontWeight>normal</labelFontWeight>
    <labelFontColor>Black</labelFontColor>
    <CaptionOrientation>Horizontal</CaptionOrientation>
    <NewControl>false</NewControl>
    <NumericText>3</NumericText>
  </CustomNumericTextBox><?xml version="1.0"?>
  <AllControlsCount xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <Width>0</Width>
    <id>ControlsID</id>
    <LabelWidth>0</LabelWidth>
    <NewControl>false</NewControl>
    <NumericText>0</NumericText>
    <lblCount>0</lblCount>
    <txtCount>12</txtCount>
    <numTxtCount>1</numTxtCount>
    <ddlCount>0</ddlCount>
    <rbCount>0</rbCount>
    <cbCount>0</cbCount>
  </AllControlsCount>
</EMR>' as XML))
 GO

Error message:

Msg 9438, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
XML parsing: line 19, character 24, text/xmldecl not at the beginning of input

Table structure:

TABLE [EMR].[tblTemplateForm](
    [FormID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [FormName] [varchar](100) NULL,
    [FormDesc] [varchar](255) NULL,
    [FormXML] [xml] NULL,
    [Published] [bit] NULL,
    [FormType] [int] NULL,
    [CreatedID] [int] NULL,
    [CreatedDate] [datetime] NULL,
    [ModifiedID] [int] NULL,
    [ModifiedDate] [datetime] NULL,

Answer 1

Repeating XML declaration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml version="1.0"?>

If the XML declaration is included, it must be situated at the first position of the first line in the XML document

Answer 2

Why do you have extra

<?xml version="1.0"?>

in two places? Remove them and it should work fine.

Raj