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Mike Brown writes: > My question was, when supplying a character stream to the parser, is it > reasonable to expect that the parser will not complain if the encoding > declaration says the encoding is (was) something the parser does not > support? > XML seems to assume that every parsed entity that a processor encounters > consists of encoded characters (bytes, essentially), whereas in practice > we obviously have parsers that accept the entities as characters. Hmm -- I can see two reasonable arguments here: 1. With a Java character stream, there's no way to know what the original encoding might have been, so the encoding declaration is moot. 2. A Java character stream is presented (more-or-less) in UTF-16, so the encoding declaration, if present, should agree with that. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/
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