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Mike Brown writes:
> My question was, when supplying a character stream to the parser, is it
> reasonable to expect that the parser will not complain if the encoding
> declaration says the encoding is (was) something the parser does not
> support?
> XML seems to assume that every parsed entity that a processor encounters
> consists of encoded characters (bytes, essentially), whereas in practice
> we obviously have parsers that accept the entities as characters.
Hmm -- I can see two reasonable arguments here:
1. With a Java character stream, there's no way to know what the
original encoding might have been, so the encoding declaration is
moot.
2. A Java character stream is presented (more-or-less) in UTF-16, so
the encoding declaration, if present, should agree with that.
All the best,
David
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