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> My problem is to convince them that IE5 is not the correct > tool to validate > XML docs. I have tried to locate articlea that indicate the conformant > levels of IE5, but failed. I have found the articles that Tim Bray has > written on IE5 but they don't highlight specific UTF-8 > handling issues. I have also found on a current project a database full of so-called XML files that use iso-8859-1 encoding without saying so, and which MSXML seems to process quite happily. Last time I suggested on this list that Microsoft seemed to be auto-detecting the encoding, they denied it. Perhaps they just pass the bytes through transparently, I don't know. But it's certainly true that documents can get through MSXML and fail on other parsers (and unfortunately users tend to draw the wrong conclusion from this). In fairness, there is a let-out clause in the XML standard that allows a parser to infer the encoding from external factors. Mike Kay *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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