I didn't remember that requirement, so I looked it up. It was added in XML 1.0 2nd edition. Originally, unspecified encodings were open for auto-detection.
Content type trumps encoding declarations, of course, per RFC 3023 and allowed by the XML spec. wunder On 5/9/07 4:19 PM, "Mike Klaas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that conformant parsers use UTF-8 as the default anyway: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding > > -Mike
