- From: Liam Quinn <liam@htmlhelp.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:01:49 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Peter Sheerin <pete@petesguide.com>
- cc: <www-validator@w3.org>
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Peter Sheerin wrote: > Once upon a time you graciously added code to handle the optional BOM on UTF-8 files, but I seem to have found a way to break that code. Could you take a look at this page and its resulting validation message, then tell me if I'm doing something wrong? > > http://cadenceweb.com:8080/newsletter/sheerin/test/Prototype4.html > > This seems to be specific to pages that have the XML prolog. I suppose there could be some other strange interloper character causing the problem, but it's probably the BOM. > > :8001 validator report: > a.. Note: UTF-8 'BOM' detected and removed. (This message is informational. See the explanation for details.) > This Page Is NOT Valid XHTML 1.1! > Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser. > > 1.. Line 1, column 0: character "" not allowed in prolog > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > ^ Your page starts with 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF so you have three occurrences of the byte-order mark instead of the expected one or zero. -- Liam Quinn
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