Three characters at beginning of xml file written with xmltextwriter   

Here they are:



They appear at the beginning of the file. If I cut and paste the file with 
these characters into a xml validator I get an error. These characters do 
not appear in notepad but do in my other text editor. Explorer seems to open 
the file ok though. Thanks

date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:35:12 -0400   author:   Ellie

Re: Three characters at beginning of xml file written with xmltextwriter   

Ellie wrote:
> Here they are:
> 
> 
> 
> They appear at the beginning of the file. If I cut and paste the file 
> with these characters into a xml validator I get an error. These 
> characters do not appear in notepad but do in my other text editor. 
> Explorer seems to open the file ok though. Thanks

Does that text editor not support Unicode? What you see is (most likely) 
a byte order mark (BOM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark


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	Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
	http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:50:16 +0200   author:   Martin Honnen

Re: Three characters at beginning of xml file written with xmltextwriter   

Thanks, that's gotta be it. the xml file is utf-8 and I've got an old 
version of textpad. As long as it is normal and won't cause a problem with 
any xml readers then that's fine.


"Martin Honnen"  wrote in message 
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> Ellie wrote:
>> Here they are:
>>
>> 
>>
>> They appear at the beginning of the file. If I cut and paste the file 
>> with these characters into a xml validator I get an error. These 
>> characters do not appear in notepad but do in my other text editor. 
>> Explorer seems to open the file ok though. Thanks
>
> Does that text editor not support Unicode? What you see is (most likely) a 
> byte order mark (BOM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte-order_mark
>
>
> -- 
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/

date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:13:47 -0400   author:   Ellie