Re: ISO-8859-1 encoding and XmlDecl omision (was Re: L

  is invalid. ISO-8859-1 is a subset of UTF-8 and should cause no problems
  since most parsers default to UTF-8 if the XML declaration is ommited.

All parsers default to utf8 in the absence of a declaration and
byte-order mark, that is specified by the XMl rec.
However ISO-8859-1 is not a subset of utf8, the first 127 (ASCII) slots
are the same but the upper half of latin 1 is encoded in ISO-8859-1
as single bytes, which will cause fatal errors if interpretted as utf8,
where those characters require two bytes in the encoding.

  I believe the only constraint when using
  the XML output method is that the result must be a general parsed
  entity.

yes, but a general parsed entity in ISO-8859-1 encoding must have an
encoding declaration to be well formed. XSLT does not distinguish
between an xml declaration and a text declaration, the only difference
is the standalone attribute anyway).


David

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