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RE: How to read the encoding of an XML document
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] How to read the encoding of an XML document
- From: James Garriss <jpgarriss at home dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 11:11:28 -0400
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At 11:07 AM 10/25/2001 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> > My XML document has a specific encoding.
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> > <document>data goes here</document>
> >
> > What XSL do I use to read the value of the encoding attribute?
>
>You can't. By the time the XML parser has done its work, the original
>encoding of the file is of no further interest, since all the characters are
>now in Unicode.
When you say Unicode, does that equate to UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 or
something else? Or does the answer depend upon the XML parser you are
using, which in my case is MSXML3.0?
--James Garriss
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