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On 05/07/2011 15:22, Joe Fawcett wrote: > , I still don't see how it manages to read the encoding mentioned in > the XML declaration with only the BOM available? you are verging off list, but a) lt's specified here http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-guessing and b) in the absence of external http header information, using the bom and or the first few bytes encoding "<?xml" it can figure out how (most likely) the ascii range of characters are encoded and that's good enough to be able to read the encoding declaration and fix up the encoding once you have read that. David ________________________________________________________________________ The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. ________________________________________________________________________
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