Moreover, even if XML parsers are able to recognize encoding, it's very bad practice to have an XML file without the encoding property set.
We have the default enconding that is UTF-8 in this case.
Of course, but not everybody knows that UTF-8 is the default encoding. So I'm with Stefano, it's bad practice, while I'm ok with converting ISO-8859-1 encoded files to UTF-8 of course.
Joerg
