Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers usually do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org mailing list. Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Hi, is the attached xml file (simple.xml) really invalid (as indicated by nxhtml) or is this a bug in nxhtml? describe-char on the first symbol gives (I replaced the BOM part with XXX): ,---- | character: XXX (65279, #o177377, #xfeff) | preferred charset: unicode (Unicode (ISO10646)) | code point: 0xFEFF | syntax: w which means: word | buffer code: #xEF #xBB #xBF | file code: #xEF #xBB #xBF (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix) | display: no font available | | Character code properties are not shown: customize what to show | | There is an overlay here: | From 1 to 2 | category rng-error | help-echo "Missing space after name" | priority 1 | | | There are text properties here: | auto-composed t | fontified t `---- describe-current-coding-system also looks correct: ,---- | Coding system for saving this buffer: | U -- utf-8-unix (alias: mule-utf-8-unix) `---- Regards, Patrick If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file /home/patrick/prg/stow/emacs-devel/share/emacs/23.0.60/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.4 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2008-05-08 on golem Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.10400090 configured using `configure '--prefix=/home/patrick/prg/stow/emacs-devel'' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: nil locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: nXML Minor modes in effect: delete-selection-mode: t show-paren-mode: t savehist-mode: t pc-selection-mode: t iswitchb-mode: t display-time-mode: t shell-dirtrack-mode: t tooltip-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t global-auto-composition-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t column-number-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Recent input: M-x C-g Recent messages: Loading time...done Loading iswitchb...done Loading pc-select...done Loading savehist...done Loading paren...done Emacs startup time: 3 seconds. For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Using vacuous schema Quit Missing space after name