XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Andrew Thompson scripsit:

> But the file still wouldn't go through when saved as UTF-8.
> So finally I saved it as UTF-8 with no BOM, and the file goes 
> through... which is odd. BOM on, exception, BOM off, goes through.

Earlier editions of the XML Recommendation weren't unambiguously clear that
a BOM was permitted in UTF-8-encoded XML.  The Third (current) Edition is.
So file a bug against the parser you are using and/or switch to a new parser.

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