• From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@m...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:32:07 -0400

On 07/05/2011 10:22 AM, Joe Fawcett wrote:
> Could someone explain step-by-step what happens when a parser opens a
> document, I still don't see how it manages to read the encoding mentioned in
> the XML declaration with only the BOM available?

See <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charencoding > and <URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-guessing >.

~Chris
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 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they
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• References:
  • Encodings and how they're specified
    • From: Joe Fawcett <joefawcett@h...>