Question

Is there any way to output the contents of an XDocument without the BOM? When reading the output with Flash, it causes errors.

Answer 1

If you’re writing the XML with an XmlWriter, you can set the Encoding to one that has been initialized to leave out the BOM.

EG: System.Text.UTF8Encoding’s constructor takes a boolean to specify whether you want the BOM, so:

XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create('foo.xml'); writer.Settings.Encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding(false); myXDocument.WriteTo(writer); 

Would create an XmlWriter with UTF-8 encoding and without the Byte Order Mark.