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- From: Deke Smith <deke@tallent.com>
- To: <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 98 09:46:08 -0500
I think I know the answer I am going to get, but I'll ask anyway.
Within a single XML document, is it possible to have the text encoding
change from element to element?
For example:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<PHRASES>
<PHRASE encoding="ISO-8859-1" xml:lang="en">Hello!</PHRASE>
<PHRASE encoding="X-EUC-TW" xml:lang="zh-TW"><!--chinese language text
here--></PHRASE>
</PHRASES>
At the least, I can imagine XML browsers and parsers will cough up a hair
ball on this. My feeling is that this should NOT be valid, but I don't
know for sure. The way I see that the specs allow for this is for the
character encoding to be UTF-16 for the whole document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<PHRASES>
<PHRASE xml:lang="en">Hello!</PHRASE>
<PHRASE xml:lang="zh-TW"><!--chinese language text here--></PHRASE>
</PHRASES>
Deke
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Deke Smith
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deke@tallent.com, 615-661-9878
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