[opencms-dev] Problems through Byte-Order Mark

Wed Dec 24 11:09:53 CET 2008

On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Philip Kuegler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are several possibilities:
> 1.) Create a new empty file and copy/paste the jsp to there. Then remove
> the old file and rename the new one
> or
> 2.) Edit the file with a text editor (I suggest UltraEdit) and use it to
> remove the BOM
> or
> 3.) Use your preferred IDE, open the file, change the char encoding and
> then save it
> or
> 4.) "vi" the file and remove the BOM manually ;-)
> or
> 5.) copy/paste to notepad and back. So you should get rid of it.

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I will try and keep you informed.

> However be aware that the editor you use to open/save the file might be
> the problem. Usually it should provide settings to turn the BOM on or off.
>
> br,
> Philip
>
> Yves Glodt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a weird problem, and I noticed about only when I tried to validate
> > my produced html.
> >
> > It seems one of my templates has a BOM [1], and I found no way to remove
> > it. Strangely the BOM seems to create rendering problems for jsp pages
> > which make use of my template. "Normal" xmlpages which use the same
> > template do not suffer from any problems.
> >
> > The errors from the validator are these:
> >
> >  Line 1, Column 0: character "" not allowed in prolog.
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> > "http://www.w
> >
> >  Line 14, Column 0: character data is not allowed here.
> > <body>
> >
> >  Line 1, Column 3: XML Parsing Error: Start tag expected, '<' not found.
> > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> > "http://www.w
> >
> > Note that I have a second template in my project which works fine and
> > does not create rendering errors, and also does not have the BOM
> >
> > How can I remove the BOM from an OpenCms jsp page?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Yves
> >
> >
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_Order_Mark