RE: Special characters in comments

[Kay Michael <Michael.Kay@xxxxxxx>]

> > I have a feeling Microsoft's XML parser auto-detects 
> > iso-8859-1 encoding. I suspect this contravenes the XML specification,
though it is 
> > a very handy feature.
> 
> We don't do any auto-detection of encodings.

I apologize for the misinformation. I now have no explanation for a
phenomenon I observed a few weeks ago where a stylesheet that worked under
MSXML needed to have encoding="iso-8859-1" added to make it work under Saxon
or xt. I'll see if I can recreate the circumstances.

Incidentally, Håkan sent me the stylesheet that was causing him problems and
it was indeed due to the absence of an xml declaration in an iso-8859-1
encoded stylesheet.

Mike Kay


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