Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Very interesting!
>
> Here's the description I now have:
>
> Assuming external information did not decide the encoding ...
>
> An XML Parser will make an initial "guess" of the encoding based upon
> the presence or absence of a Byte Order Mark (BOM). The XML parser then
> interprets the bit strings using that guess up to the first ">"
> character (the end of the XML declaration). Now that it knows the
> "real" encoding it interprets the rest of the document using the
> encoding it found in the XML declaration.
>
> Do I have it correct?
'<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>'
So the encoding is optional?
Need to cater for the great unwashed too!
regards
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