XDocument: saving XML to file without BOM

Question

I\'m generating an utf-8 XML file using XDocument.

XDocument xml_document = new XDocument(
                    new XDeclaration(\"1.0\"         


        

Answer 1

First of all: the service provider MUST handle it, according to XML spec, which states that BOM may be present in case of UTF-8 representation.

You can force to save your XML without BOM like this:

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Encoding = new UTF8Encoding(false); // The false means, do not emit the BOM.
using (XmlWriter w = XmlWriter.Create("my.xml", settings))
{
    doc.Save(w);
}

(Googled from here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/xmlandnetfx/thread/ccc08c65-01d7-43c6-adf3-1fc70fdb026a)