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UTF-8 BOM w/ ISO-8859-1 encoding pseudo attribute

I have an XML document that includeds a UTF-8 BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF).
The document is properly encoded as UTF-8. However the XMLDecl
encoding pseudo attribute indicates 'ISO-8859-1'. So how SHOULD the
XML processor handle this? Is it a fatal error? Clearly it cannot be
processed as ISO-8859-1 because the content is scrambled. It appears
the Xerces is parsing it according to ISo-8859-1 even though the BOM
is there. Hmm. Any sugestions? How should one handle this case?
Erik
Jul 20 '05 #1
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In article <eb************ **************@ posting.google. com>,
Erik Wahlstrom <er************ @gmail.com> wrote:
I have an XML document that includeds a UTF-8 BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF).
The document is properly encoded as UTF-8. However the XMLDecl
encoding pseudo attribute indicates 'ISO-8859-1'. So how SHOULD the
XML processor handle this?


XML (3rd edition) 4.3.3 says:

In the absence of information provided by an external transport
protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME), it is a fatal error for an entity
including an encoding declaration to be presented to the XML
processor in an encoding other than that named in the declaration

-- Richard
Jul 20 '05 #2

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