Problem using xml parser for pl/sql

I get the following error message while trying to parse a xml document that is stored in a lob column.
Does anyone know what causes this error and how to fix it?

ORA-20120: ORA-20100: Error occurred while parsing: Start of root element expected
ORA-06512: at "NEWS1.PLSQLXML_OLD", line 202 ORA-06512: at line 1

This is the code that generates the error:

DBMS_LOB.OPEN(lob_loc,DBMS_LOB.LOB_READWRITE); -- parse input xml
xmlparser.parseClob(parser, lob_loc);

Before trying this code I was reading the xml from a file and was able to parse the xml without problems.

• parse input file xmlparser.parse(parser, directory || '\' || inputFile);

Thanks
Angelina

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