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It's not well-formed.
From the XML 1.0 spec [1]: "It is a fatal error if an XML entity is determined (via default, encoding declaration, or higher-level protocol) to be in a certain encoding but contains byte sequences that are not legal in that encoding." Unless of course there is a "higher-level protocol" that tells
you it's really a different encoding. (The term higher-level protocol is not
really defined. I think they had in mind the media-type from the HTTP
content header. In terms of the protocol stack, that of course is a lower-level
protocol. But it's sufficiently woolly that a phone call from the sender to say
"Oops, I meant EBCDIC" would be enough to make the document
well-formed.
Regards,
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