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Hi Rob,

thanks for your reply.

> The "magic bytes" are the UTF-8 byte-order mark. When you find those 
> three bytes at the start of a file, it means that the entire file 
> (including those three bytes) is encoded as UTF-8. That's backed up by 
> the "encoding" attribute on the <?xml?> processing instruction.

Thanks for the info. I just checked, Delphi dosn't seem to mind if those 
bytes are missing, it simply adds them again next time the file is saved.

> In what way have you changed the file?

For now, I haven't changed anything yet, I just load it (using 
XML::Simple) and save it again. What I ultimately want to do is change 
values in the VersionInfoKeys block, plus change some compiler and 
linker settings. Before I treat a .bdsproj file like a flat file, I 
thought I'd try the "clean" way first and really treat it like an XML file.

I meanwhile got a reply from XML::Simple's author (Grant McLean), a 
possible reason that Delphi doesn't like the changed files is the fact 
that XML::Simple reorders the elements.

Stephan