The document encoding is "UTF-8"
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Shekhar
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From: Andy Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: UTF-8 Encoding
> Shekhar Karani wrote:
> > I am using the xerces 2.2.1 to parse XML documents. One of the XML
> > documents has a hex character B6. This character is being treated as an
> > invalid UTF-8 character by the parser. The parser gives the error
> > "Invalid byte 1 of UTF-8 byte stream". However, the editor XML SPY
> > version 5, accepts this character.
>
> What is the encoding of the document? If it is really
> ISO Latin 1 ("ISO-8859-1") and you do NOT specify this
> in the XML Declaration at the top of the document (e.g.
> "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='...'?>"), then your
> document is in error.
>
> If XML Spy accepts it w/o the encoding declaration,
> then it is not following the XML specification which
> dictates that the encoding of the document is assumed
> to be UTF-8 in the absence of the XML declaration.
>
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