Whitespace before SOAP declaration

Question

We recently got a weird bug, and I'm wondering if anyone has encountered it.

When Magento generates the WSDL (v2) it started adding an extra whitespace before the  declaration.

This seems to pretty much break the internet :) .

I've grep'ed the entire code base and there are no whitespaces before XML decelerations anywhere.

Also, to add a topping, no errors are generated anywhere...

Thank you

Tomir Schmite Jr. · Answer

Remove any characters (spaces, tabs etc..) before <?php at beginning of *.php files.

hammygoonan · Answer

It's almost certainly a blank line at the start of a file.

JasonS · Answer

Try using this script to find the extra whitespace:

http://christian.roy.name/blog/removing-extra-whitespaces-bunch-php-files-using-ack-grep-and-emacs

You'll obviously need ssh for this and you should backup your files before running this or any script that edits your files

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