RE: RE: [xml-dev] XSD - Validator problem

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'Rick Jelliffe'" <rjelliffe@...>,<xml-dev@...>
• Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:07:55 +0100

In UTF-8, at the start of a file it is 
> just a nonsense character, useless, out-of-place, a sign of 
> bad programming, and it messes up encoding detectors

I'd have said it's a three-byte sequence which tells you pretty reliably
that you're dealing with a UTF-8 encoded file - provided of course that you
are looking for it. Agreed, BOM is a misnomer.

I'm not defending the decision to add it to the XML spec by means of an
erratum, however.

Michael Kay