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Steffen Rodig wrote: > imagine a plain text file which I want to markup using XML. Now it could be > that there are characters in this file whose ASCII value is greater than > 127 (in PCDATA sections). > > If I try to use expat on the generated XML file, it tells me that it is > not wellformed at the position where such a character occurs. Does the > XML spec say anything about not permitting characters with high ASCII > values? If so, where? Expat, like a proper XML parser, is assuming the UTF-8 charset. You need to specify Latin-1 or whatever you are using. > I guess, to correctly interpret and display those characters I have to > know the character set which was used to encode the original text file. > How can I communicate this character set to an XML parser? Put "<?xml encoding="8859-1" ?>" as the very first line. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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