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RE: Encoding attribute in IE5/MSXML (Was: RE: MSXML for Java Questions)

• From: "Hunter, David" <dhunter@M...>
• To: 'Nik O' <niko@c...>, - XML-Dev <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:32:15 -0400

As stated in an email on the other thread, MSXML only takes Unicode strings
for loadXML(), but will take strings in many encodings for load().  (It
supports all of the encodings I've ever tried to throw at it.)

David Hunter
david.hunter@m...
MediaServ Information Architects
http://www.MediaServ.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Nik O [mailto:niko@c...]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 1999 12:00 PM
To: - XML-Dev
Subject: Encoding attribute in IE5/MSXML (Was: RE: MSXML for Java
Questions)


It has been my observation that IE5 (i'm using version "5.00.2014.0216IC")
will only accept two values for the "<?xml ..encoding=".."?> declaration:
  1)  "UTF-8"; or
  2)  "ISO-8859-1".
All other values that i've tried, including "UTF-16", cause the error
message: "Switch from current encoding to specified encoding not
supported.".

This would seem to be yet another indication that IE is *not* a conformant
XML 1.0 parser/application, as support of both UTF-8 and UTF-16 is a
requirement, not merely an option (see section "2.2 Characters", wherein it
is stated: "All XML processors must accept the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings of
10646..").

I hope someone from MS who is on this list can tell us when the encoding
attribute will be fully-supported in IE5 ("5.00.2525.0666IC", IE6?), as well
as when we might expect proper XSL support in IE5?

Regards,
-Nik O, Teton Data Systems, Jackson, Wyo.



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