[jdom-interest] Byte Order Mark Parsing

[Fred Clewis]

I'm using JDOMb7 and xerces 2 b3.    During my attempts to
internationalize, I have temporarily come to the strange conclusion that I
need to add a BOM, FE FF, to the front of a unicode format xml file.

I get:
org.jdom.JDOMException: Error in building: Content is not allowed in
prolog.
        at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:96)
        at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:44)
        at org.jdom.JDOMException.<init>(JDOMException.java:119)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:306)
        at org.jdom.input.SAXBuilder.build(SAXBuilder.java:583)

the file in hex looks like:
FEFF003C 003F0078 006D006C 00200076

Is this supposed to parse?
thanks,