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How to fix: Invalid content was found starting with element '...'.

What happened?

The WH-347 schema enforces strict element ordering within each section. If Contractor fields are mixed with Employee fields, or if a required element is missing, the entire validation fails. This error can be hard to debug because the error message doesn't clearly say 'wrong order'.

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