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-----Original Message----- From: Deke Smith <deke@t...> >I think I know the answer I am going to get, but I'll ask anyway. > >Within a single XML document, is it possible to have the text encoding >change from element to element? The way you've phrased the question, the answer is yes, but given your examples, I suspect you are really asking whether is it possible to have the text encoding change WITHIN A SINGLE ENTITY, in which case the answer is no. There is nothing to stop you having <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE PHRASES [ <!ENTITY phrase2 SYSTEM "phrase2.xml"> ]> <PHRASES> <PHRASE encoding="ISO-8859-1" xml:lang="en">Hello!</PHRASE> &phrase2; </PHRASES> where phrase2.xml is <?xml encoding="X-EUC-TW"?> <PHRASE xml:lang="zh-TW"><!--chinese language text here--></PHRASE> This is within the one document (but two entities). Mind you, your example: <?xml version="1.0"?> <PHRASES> <PHRASE encoding="ISO-8859-1" xml:lang="en">Hello!</PHRASE> <PHRASE encoding="X-EUC-TW" xml:lang="zh-TW"><!--chinese language text here--></PHRASE> </PHRASES> won't cause any problems, simply because there is nothing special about the attribute "encoding". Note that it's not valid but that isn't because of the encoding attribute, it's simply because there isn't a DTD declaring the elements and attributes used. James -- James Tauber / jtauber@j... http://www.jtauber.com/ Lecturer and Associate Researcher Electronic Commerce Network ( http://www.xmlinfo.com/ Curtin Business School ( http://www.xmlsoftware.com/ Perth, Western Australia ( http://www.schema.net/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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