Symbolic link possible with Coldbox.cfc?

Hi,

I wrote a simple ColdBox app do demonstrate ValidateThis integration
which uses ColdBox.cfc configuration and sent it to a mac user who
wanted to use it with a symbolic link (I'm on Windows so can't test).
Is it possible to use ColdBox bootstrapped with a symbolic link?

The error he is getting is:

An error occured while Parsing an XML document.

Content is not allowed in prolog.

The error occurred in
/Users/fredbloggs/Documents/gitRepos/coldbox-platform/system/web/
loader/FrameworkLoader.cfc:
line 70
Called from /Users/fredbloggs/Documents/gitRepos/coldbox-platform/
system/web/Controller.cfc:
line 43
Called from /Users/fredbloggs/Documents/gitRepos/coldbox-platform/
system/Coldbox.cfc:
line 69
Called from /Users/fredbloggs/Documents/gitRepos/ValidateThis/
ValidateThis/samples/ColdboxDemo/Application.cfc:
line 51
68 :
69 : // Parse settings
70 : fwXML =
xmlParse(instance.FrameworkConfigFile);
71 :
72 : //Get SettingNodes From Config

Thanks for any pointers!

- John