Re: [xsl] Probs using XSLT in browsers

[António Mota <amsmota@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, i think i understood. But that means that FF correctly guessed i
was using latin 1 or it simply ignores the illegal characters, cause
the problem only ocurred in IE.

Thanks again.


On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:31:40 GMT, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > but isn't that strange that it occurs even in comments?
> 
> No.
> 
> XML is defined to be a series of (unicode characters) whereas your file
> consists of a series of bytes. So the first thing (conceptually) that
> has to happen is that a) the system figures out what encoding you are
> usinmg and then (b) translates the sequence of bytes into a sequence of
> characters and then (c) parses that sequence of characters looking for
> XML markup.
> 
> A real XML parser most likely interleaves these into a single pass, but
> logically they are distinct and if you have an encoding error (such as
> an illegal utf8 byte when the system thought it was reading utf8 (but
> you intended latin 1) then logically you get a fatal error after stage
> (b) and before the file can be parsed looking for comments (or any other
> markup).
> 
> 
> David
> 
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