Re: [xml] setting the default charset ?

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:57:18PM +0200, Thomas Broyer wrote:
> Some servers recode files on the fly, they do not modify their content (so
> don't modify the encoding declaration).
> That's the reason why the encoding declaration at protocol level is
> authoritative.
And some servers always send an 8859-1 encoding http header even when it's
incorrect -- this was a major problem with HTML, and we tried hard to
make it not a problem with XML.

The URL Daniel referenced,
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html#spec-char-encoding
is for the HTML spec and does not apply to XML.

The encoding declaration in XML must override any other.

This does become a problem for XHTML, where maybe we have
conflicting rules.  But anything translating the encoding of
an XML document must change the XML declaration.  ANy other
behaviour is broken.

Best,

Lee

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