RE: std::istream as XSLTInputSource

[David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM]

Hi Don,

This is all very confusing, so I'm going to ask someone else what their
opinion is.  The second URL points to part of the recommendation that's
non-normative, but I may be mis-reading the first part.

Dave



                                                                                
                                                           
                      "Don McClimans"                                           
                                                           
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                                                    Subject: RE: std::istream 
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>>If so, do I have to start the stream with a BOM, for the parser to
>>recognise it as UTF-16?
>
>You have to do what the XML recommendation says:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#charencoding
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-guessing
>
>So the answer is yes.

Dave,

Hmm, as I read that second URL, the answer is no. It says that using a byte
order mark is fine, but without a byte order mark, the parser should be
able
to tell what encoding is being used by looking at the first four bytes of
the file, which should be "<?" in UTF-16.

Don