Re: SAXON and UTF-8

On Thu, Sep 27 '01 at 16:15, Gustaf Liljegren wrote:
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <a>ä</a>
> 
> The file is called "a.xml" and I intend to store it in UTF-8, so there's no
> need to declare the use of Latin 1. Here's the stylesheet:
This is only true, if you never store it in latin-1 and your editor
knows that is it latin-1 and you want to save utf-8
> 
> This is the result when I save a.xml in "Unicode" format:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><b>ä</b>
> 
> As expected, but why is the encoding declaration added?
While adding utf-8 is not needed (it is not needed to add an encoding
only for utf-8 and utf-16), adding an encoding is "good style".

sorry, I cant help you with your problem (I don't have an editor where I
could enter non ascii 7 characters with proper encodung at the moment,
stuck with the unix shell)
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Goetz Bock                                              IT Consultant
Dipl.-Inf. Univ.

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