Jon Hanna scripsit: > Not strictly true. The default encoding scheme's is UTF-8 *or* UTF-16LE *or* > UTF-16BE, it's trivial to tell which of these an XML document is in by > looking at the first few bytes, as described in Appendix F of the XML Spec > <http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-guessing>. You MUST accept all of these to > comply with the XML spec.
Ahem. The names "UTF-16LE" and "UTF-16BE" refer to BOMless versions of the UTF-16 encoding, and may *not* be used in XML documents without an XML declaration. Nor are all XML parsers required to support them. XML parsers MUST support UTF-16, with a BOM and in either order, and UTF-8. All other encodings MUST be properly declared. (Bogusly IMHO, an HTTP Content-Type: header overrides this rule.) -- "In my last lifetime, John Cowan I believed in reincarnation; http://www.ccil.org/~cowan in this lifetime, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't." --Thiagi http://www.reutershealth.com
