RE: Microsoft.XMLDOM UTF-8 Encoding!

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of [Tech]
> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 1:03 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  Microsoft.XMLDOM UTF-8 Encoding!
>
>
> Exact,
>
> The first byte supose to tell the encoding.

The first bytes *may* tell the encoding.

> Like this UTF-16 => "Unicode byte-order mark [0xFF 0xFE] or [0xFE 0xFF]"
>
> But Microsoft (and lot more) say that XML file generate with ASP
> and XMLDOM
> are UTF-8 by default. (no byte was added to the file...)

It doesn't need to.

> So, How tell "Microsoft.XMLDOM" to save my XML file with a true UTF-8
> encoding?

To *save* a DOM in UTF-8, do what you're already doing (create the XML
declaration using MSXML's createProcessingInstruction() and save the file).

However the issue seems to be *serving* XML to a client. You'll need to show
us *that* ASP code to find the problem. It's almost certainly an unnecessary
round-trip of the XML serialization trough a string, such as

	response.write(dom.xml)

or

	response.write(dom1.transformNode(dom2))

which *will* break encoding information.

Julian

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