RE: SAXON and UTF-8

Michael Kay wrote at 27 Sep 2001 17:27:51 +0100:
 > My reading of the XML spec is that it expects to find BOM only in UTF-16
 > files. I can't see any total prohibition of a BOM in a UTF-8 file, but the
 > spec certainly seems to assume that they won't occur. If anyone thinks
 > otherwise, I'd like to see evidence from the XML specification, which is the
 > only definitive source.

You are required to have the BOM with UTF-16, but there's nothing that
says that you can't have a BOM with UTF-8.

Appendix F in XML 1.0 2ed provides an example of the UTF-8 BOM.

Regards,


Tony Graham
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