Hi!

Is there anything special when outputting XML from perl?

I am trying to submit an opensearch description document to A9 at http://a9.com/-/opensearch/ and it sais it could not find a "valid XML header in file" - although I successfully validated at feedvalidator.org.

My XML is utf-8 like this: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
...
</OpenSearchDescription>

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and I remember that printing text this way: 
print "Content-Type: application/opensearchdescription+xml\n\n";
print $xmlstuff;

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does not really output binary data ("XML is binary data that happens to look like text"). My only idea left is that the print content is not really properly binary encoded data as I just printed it and treated it like text before. Now, how can I add the first magic XML byte on my output. Something like print binmode($xmlstuff); or something with pack??

In reply to Output of XML: "valid XML header needed"-error (OpenSearch)? by isync

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