> Doesn't this limit the efficacy and universality of XML? You can't
> count on
> the sender actually putting the encoding where it belongs, or even
> including one
> at all.
Yes, it probably does. Oh well.
XML is one of the better examples of trade-offs around. One of the
trade-offs was character encoding; a given XML document cannot have
multiple encodings. The encoding must be at the beginning, and if
it's omitted, then there are some well-defined ways to determine
what the encoding is.
/r$
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Rich Salz Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html
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