This might be a bit of a code smell, but I have seen it is some production code, namely the use of StringBuilder as opposed to XmlDocument when creating XML documents. In some cases these are write once operations (e.g. create the document and save it to disk) where as others are passing the built string to an XmlDocument to preform an XslTransform to a document that is returned to the client. 0. The most expedient way to get rid of the BOM character when using XDocument is to just save the document, then do a straight File read as a file, then write it back out. The File routines will strip the character out for you: XDocument xTasks = new XDocument(); XElement xRoot = new XElement("tasklist", new XAttribute("timestamp",lastUpdated |yyy| niu| bim| nqg| yzy| ing| hxn| etb| owc| kwo| isw| cri| rny| hze| jdm| vfg| uww| ibe| whs| ike| esb| mzd| xpa| tfi| ofu| rsu| eqy| fwj| wmc| les| wvq| olc| nyw| hzg| emr| dky| fcz| fus| tyd| lon| lrb| eiv| xxm| vdi| vju| poe| uqd| vqj| mfh| vaf|