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Here's also an interesting article on some of the complexities involved with you add the HTTP content-type specification into the mix: "XML on the Web Has Failed" <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/07/21/dive.html> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 10:35 AM, David Carlisle <davidc@nag.co.uk> wrote: > 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. > ________________________________________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@lists.xml.org > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@lists.xml.org > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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