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I was looking around to see if there might have been a particular reason why expat was implemented such that no leading white space is allowed before the standard <?xml version="1.0" ?> line. You get the error XML_ERROR_MISPLACED_XML_PI if there are any leading carriage returns, line feeds, spaces or tabs. From my understanding of things, the Byte Order Mark is what allows an XML parser to determine which character set in use. (see Appendix F, Autodetection of Character Encodings in http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) If the Byte Order Mark is not found, shouldn't the starting content of the data stream be discarded until the Byte Order Mark is located?
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