Re: [xml] How to determine document encoding

[Rich Salz <rsalz datapower com>]

> Doesn't this limit the efficacy and universality of XML?   You can't
> count on
> the sender actually putting the encoding where it belongs, or even
> including one
> at all.

Yes, it probably does.  Oh well.

XML is one of the better examples of trade-offs around.  One of the
trade-offs was character encoding; a given XML document cannot have
multiple encodings.  The encoding must be at the beginning, and if
it's omitted, then there are some well-defined ways to determine
what the encoding is.

        /r$

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