std.xml2 (collecting features) control character

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 18 February 2016 at 16:56:08 UTC, Robert burner 
Schadek wrote:
>> unix file says it is a utf8 encoded file, but not BOM is 
>> present.
>
> the hex dump is "3C 66 6F 6F 3E C2 80 3C 2F 66 6F 6F 3E"

Gah, I should have read this before replying... well, that does 
appear to be valid utf-8.... why is it throwing an exception then?

I'm pretty sure that byte stream *is* actually well-formed xml 
1.0 and should pass utf validation as well as the XML 
well-formedness check.