XSLT processor - no support for BOM
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#45 XSLT processor - no support for BOM
The xslt proccessor crashes with error message "Unable to compile stylesheet" if the stylesheet is encoded in utf-8 with byte order marker. A similar error occurs if the input file has this encoding. Since a BOM is added by many common (Windows) editors by default this is likely something that will cause a lot of confusion.
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Anonymous
Unfortunately, Web-Harvest is written in Java language and the Java does not support UTF-8 with BOM. Furthermore it does not intend to implement it in future releases.
For more information you can follow this bug http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4508058 and releated with it other issues.
Conclusion is that this is not a bug in Web-Harvest, so we won't fix it.