Issue with XML file

Hi Experts,

I am facing an issue while saving the XML file generated in my report program to the local system.

1) I am using XSLT for generating the XML,

CALL TRANSFORMATION z04_test02 "XSLT program name

  SOURCE body = lt_body "Internal table which I am converting to XML

  RESULT XML lt_xmltab.

2) I have used GUI_DOWNLOAD to download the xml data.The file has got generated successfully, but a '#' character is appearing at the begining of the xml data, because of which the XML validation fails in the servlet program that consumes this XML file.

What might be the possible reason for this issue? How can I get rid of this character coming in the xml file ?

Thanks in advance

Anoop