I am working on a maintenance issue with some classic ASP code, and have run into a problem. When running the page, I get the error: "A name was started with an invalid character" as well as "Cannot view XML input using XSL style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later". The "invalid character" in question is the first character past the first "<", the character being the "%" in "<%" (in other words, this is not an invalid character).

I've read up on some fixes for this, but they were all for the ASP.NET environment, and although I didn't expect those fixes to work for classic ASP, I tried them anyway (and my expectations weren't disappointed--it didn't work). Anyway, does anyone out there have any idea what it is I'm dealing with here, and how to fix it? Thanks.

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