please note that the xml spec has an "errata" list with 67 items that substantially update the spec.
there, it now also recommends (though it does not force) for xml clients to recognize u+feff for utf-8 (the bytes ef bb bf) and many other byte combinations.
there is a link to the errata at the beginning of the xml spec.
markus
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