Re: [xml-dev] XHTML 5 and validation

[John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org>]

Mike Sokolov scripsit:

> BOM in UTF-8 seems to cause problems with some XML parsers
> (incl. Xerces 2.9.1).  They seem to believe it is white space in the
> prolog.  To deal with this, we have had to insert a processor prior to
> our parser which checks for BOM and strips it out.

Support for the 8-BOM was not explicitly required until the XML 1.0
Third Edition of 2004.  Xerces 2.9.1 may be out of date.

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