Mix encodings in a document?

James Tauber jtauber at jtauber.com
Mon Sep 21 21:58:05 BST 1998


-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn at eps.inso.com>
>This is not strictly correct. You *could* mix encodings in a single text
>entity, but any such behaviour would fall outside the XML specification
(i.e. >it would fall below the entity manager layer).

Yes, agreed. I started typing something to this effect (that if the
character codes were legal under the declared encoding, even if their
intended characters were different, you technically would still have a well
formed document).

James




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