ok. i got it. thanks for the answer.

i have been searching the archives for too long time now but i still cant
find the best way to solve the following problem:

- i need the xml output
- i have to omit the xml declaration on the beginning
- and if i have some entity in my source file i have to keep it the way it
is
e.g.
<element>f&uuml;r</element>
should just be copied to
<element>f&uuml;r</element>

i really hope there is some better way than to parse each text node and test
for entities!

i'd be thankfull for any tipps,
/maia


----- Original Message ----- 
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>
> The default value of the encoding pseudo-attribute of the xml declaration
is
> "UTF-8".
>
> In case there is no xml declaration a parser will assume that the encoding
> of the document is UTF-8. Therefore, for any encoding different from UTF-8
> the xml declaration must be specified (otherwise the parser will not be
> correctly informed about the real encoding of the document).
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dimitre Novatchev.
> FXSL developer,
>
> http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
> Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html
>
>
>
>
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