Throws exception when file starts with byte order marker.

[SkipMike]

The byte order marker is not recommended, however it is a part of utf-8 files. Currently, if a file is started with BOM, the parser errors expecting an element. Is this something that this library can support? Or is there some thing this prevents it from parsing from xmerl.

[sorliem]

I ran into this issue, but I was streaming the file, so I could use the :trim_bom option and it was fine.

You could also write your own bom trimming function and run the file content through it. Similar to how elixir now does it: https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/5702/files