John Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 12/12/2003 10:19:36 AM:
> Does the XML document define what code page it's in?
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> John Goodyear
> ATS Benchmarking Team
> Gaithersburg, MD.
That is an excellent question, but unfortunately even with an
answer like "UTF-8" it may be meaningless on a z/OS platform
where the document in question was introduced as text that
was translated to CP 1047. In other words an XML header such
as:
<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
is lying to you if you ftped that document to z/OS with XLAT
on, or if it was generated from a perl statement such as:
print XMLFILEHANDLE "<xml version\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\">\n";
That was run by the perl interpreter on z/OS.
The test documents that the XML::SAX perl extension
tests write out would face a similar encoding ambiguity
problem.
Peter Prymmer
