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> On that basis, it will assume that it is UTF-8. It might, or it might assume it's ascii or windows code page 1252 or it might choose not to view it as an encoded character stream at all and just read a sequence of bytes. It's just an implementation detail. > It will then proceed > to read the rest of the XML decl and on interpreting the encoding attribute > will revise it's guess to be iso-8859-2. The _effect_ has to be same as if the correct encoding was specified externally and the whole file, including the xml declaration, is read with a single encoding, which is the encoding specified in the xml declaration. In practice a real system won't back up and re-read from the beginning of the file once it has parsed the declaration, but it's simplest to imagine that it does. The point I was trying to make was that the curent document makes it sound as if it's legal to have an encoding declaration encoded in ascii which specifies a non-ascii superset (such as utf-16) which is then used for the rest of the document. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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