Omit BOM in XMLDocument.save

[Scot]

How do I get the following code to not put the Unicode BOM in the file. If
the attribute ecoding=UTF-8 exists, it will put the BOM in the file.

objXMLDocument = New XmlDocument

objXMLDocument.Load("C:\test.xml")
'change the xml file
objXMLDocument.Save("C:\test.xml")

[Nigel Armstrong]

Hi Scot

If you are persisting as UTF-8, then of course you will have the byte order
mark. Could you explain what the problem is with it?

One thing you could do is use an encoding like ISO-8859-1 if you don't want
the BOM.

Nigel Armstrong

"Scot" wrote:

How do I get the following code to not put the Unicode BOM in the file. If
the attribute ecoding=UTF-8 exists, it will put the BOM in the file.

objXMLDocument = New XmlDocument

objXMLDocument.Load("C:\test.xml")
'change the xml file
objXMLDocument.Save("C:\test.xml")

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Nigel Armstrong wrote:

If you are persisting as UTF-8, then of course you will have the byte order
mark. Could you explain what the problem is with it?

One thing you could do is use an encoding like ISO-8859-1 if you don't want
the BOM.

Btw, in UTF-8 BOM is actually optional. One can supress BOM's output
using new UTF8Encoding(false) constructor.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Nigel Armstrong]

Oleg

Thanks for the info. Very useful.

Nigel Armstrong

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" wrote:

Nigel Armstrong wrote:

If you are persisting as UTF-8, then of course you will have the byte order
mark. Could you explain what the problem is with it?

One thing you could do is use an encoding like ISO-8859-1 if you don't want
the BOM.

Btw, in UTF-8 BOM is actually optional. One can supress BOM's output
using new UTF8Encoding(false) constructor.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Scot]

The destination for my XML file is a company that uses Java and they are
having troubles with the BOM.

Forgive my ignorance, but could you explain how to use that object with the
code I provided. I don't really understand how to use that object with the
xmldocument.

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
news:e7**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Nigel Armstrong wrote:

If you are persisting as UTF-8, then of course you will have the byte order mark. Could you explain what the problem is with it?

One thing you could do is use an encoding like ISO-8859-1 if you don't want the BOM.

Btw, in UTF-8 BOM is actually optional. One can supress BOM's output
using new UTF8Encoding(false) constructor.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Scot wrote:

The destination for my XML file is a company that uses Java and they are
having troubles with the BOM.

Forgive my ignorance, but could you explain how to use that object with the
code I provided. I don't really understand how to use that object with the
xmldocument.

Something like

XmlTextWriter w =
new XmlTextWriter("C:\test.xml", new UTF8Encoding(false));
objXMLDocument.Save(w);
w.Close();

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Nigel Armstrong]

Hi Scot

This sample illustrates the point that Oleg was making:

HTH

Nigel Armstrong

Dim d As New System.Xml.XmlDocument
d.LoadXml("<root><child/></root>")
Dim tw As New IO.StreamWriter("C:\test.xml", False, New
System.Text.UTF8Encoding(False))
d.Save(tw)
tw.Close()

"Scot" wrote:

The destination for my XML file is a company that uses Java and they are
having troubles with the BOM.

Forgive my ignorance, but could you explain how to use that object with the
code I provided. I don't really understand how to use that object with the
xmldocument.

"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
news:e7**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

Nigel Armstrong wrote:

If you are persisting as UTF-8, then of course you will have the byte order mark. Could you explain what the problem is with it?

One thing you could do is use an encoding like ISO-8859-1 if you don't want the BOM.

Btw, in UTF-8 BOM is actually optional. One can supress BOM's output
using new UTF8Encoding(false) constructor.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com