Re: [xsl] Top Level Element Error

[Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@xxxxxx>]

Andrew Welch wrote:
> If I remember correctly, there is a 'feature' of the Crimson XML parser
> which means it treats the BOM (byte order mark) at the start of UTF-16
> encoded file as text, and so throws an error when it encounters your
> opening <xsl:stylesheet> element.  This is compounded by the fact that
> Notepad inserts a BOM even if you save the file as UTF-8 (not sure why,
> or what use it would be).
> ...

Well, it gives you a pretty good chance to detect the encoding of a byte 
stream in absence of other encoding information (not required for XML, 
but extremely useful for "plain" source files).

Regards, Julian

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