Re: [xml-dev] BOM and encodings questions

[Philippe Poulard <Philippe.Poulard@sophia.inria.fr>]

David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> If you use a text/xml mime type the encoding of the document might be
> changed in transit by a text encoder that knows nothing about the xml
> structure, so it would be very difficult to allow encoding switches mid
> document, even if that were desired.

this is why it is preferable to use application/xml and variants

RFC 3023 describes all that stuff

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