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Ok, i think i understood. But that means that FF correctly guessed i was using latin 1 or it simply ignores the illegal characters, cause the problem only ocurred in IE. Thanks again. On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:31:40 GMT, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > but isn't that strange that it occurs even in comments? > > No. > > XML is defined to be a series of (unicode characters) whereas your file > consists of a series of bytes. So the first thing (conceptually) that > has to happen is that a) the system figures out what encoding you are > usinmg and then (b) translates the sequence of bytes into a sequence of > characters and then (c) parses that sequence of characters looking for > XML markup. > > A real XML parser most likely interleaves these into a single pass, but > logically they are distinct and if you have an encoding error (such as > an illegal utf8 byte when the system thought it was reading utf8 (but > you intended latin 1) then logically you get a fatal error after stage > (b) and before the file can be parsed looking for comments (or any other > markup). > > > David > > ________________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The > service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive > anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: > http://www.star.net.uk > ________________________________________________________________________
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