Re: translating between character sets

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 1:29 PM +0000 10/17/00, David Carlisle wrote:

> XML DTDs can not specify an encoding. Document instances can use any
> supported encoding with any DTD.

They most certainly can! This isn't obvious from the spec but if you 
pay close attention to the productions you'll note that an external 
DTD subset can include a text declaration; e.g.

<?xml encoding="ISO-8859-10">
<!ELEMENT NAME (#PCDATA)>
<!-- etc. -->

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