>> No -- it is perfectly legal - -but you MUST declare the encoding to BE Marc8 in the XML prolog,
> Wait, how canyou declare a Marc8 encoding in an XML > decleration/prolog/whatever it's called? Nope, you can't do that. There is no approved name for the MARC-8 encoding. As Andy said, the closest you could get would be to make up an experimental name, like x-marc-8, but no tool in the world would recognize that. Ralph