No, all the parser sees is a stream of bytes.  It's up to the parser to
interpret the bytes properly.  With no xml declaration, no encoding
provided, or no byte order mark, the parser assumes UTF-8.  In that case,
your document is not XML, because it contains invalid characters.

Dave



                                                                                       
        
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How can that be?  Isn't unicode conversion done before any of the contents
are looked at?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> This is not the best list for Xerces questions.  There is a Xerces-J list
> that you should subscribe to.
>
> The problem is that your document is encoded incorrectly.  There is no
> ASCII character 246, since ASCII only defines characters up to 127.
> However, there _is_ a character defined in ISO-8859-1with such a value.
> Your document does not contain an XML declaration, so you need to add one
> and specify the correct encoding:
>
>    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
>
> Dave
>



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