• From: Dave Pawson <davep@d...>
• To: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@m...>
• Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:57:04 +0100

Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Very interesting!
> 
> Here's the description I now have:
> 
> Assuming external information did not decide the encoding ...
> 
> An XML Parser will make an initial "guess" of the encoding based upon
> the presence or absence of a Byte Order Mark (BOM). The XML parser then
> interprets the bit strings using that guess up to the first ">"
> character (the end of the XML declaration).  Now that it knows the
> "real" encoding it interprets the rest of the document using the
> encoding it found in the XML declaration.
> 
> Do I have it correct?

	'<?xml' VersionInfo  EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>'

So the encoding is optional?

Need to cater for the great unwashed too!


regards



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• References:
  • Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) put Inside the XML Document?
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  • RE: Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) put Inside the XML Document?
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  • Re: Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) putInside the XML Document?
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  • [Summary] Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8") put Inside the XML Document?
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  • Re: [Summary] Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8") put Inside the XML Document?
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  • RE: [Summary] Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8") put Inside the XML Document?
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