Hi,

I have an table mapped having a column with Clob type. This column is to hold my xml data.

I am trying to save a UTF-8 encoded xml. And I read the xml from the file using BufferedReader. Just before the save the xml file has the root tag as



But after saving the column data becomes like this:

So when i try to parse the XML, it gives me exception saying "Content not allowed in Prolog"

The first character is knocked off.

I have heard about Byte Order Marking coming for UTF-8 encoded xmls from some Editors? Can this be due to that.

I am using MySQL as database.

Please let me know if anyone of you has seen this issue before

Thanks in advance
Dhanush Gopinath