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  • From: Mike Brown <mike@s...>
  • To: Rob Lugt <roblugt@e...>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:27:29 -0700 (MST)

> Mike, I don't think you need to worry about the encoding in this case.
> Obviously it is an implementational thing, but I would argue that it makes
> no sense for a SAX parser to try to validate the encoding string contained
> within a character stream (java.io.Reader).
> [...]

That's what I thought. Since there does not seem to be anything in the SAX
API that says this explicitly, I decided I should ask before making the
assumption that all implementations would ignore the encoding declaration.

Thanks for the detailed response!

   - Mike
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