Re: [xml-dev] Should we include the XML prolog in the XPath data model,

[richard@inf.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)]

In article <C189CA1F36674C4890E7265611E986F2@Sealion> you write:

>Why would you want to tell the application about the encoding of the
>document entity, without also revealing the encoding of every other entity?

For simple document-to-document transformations, the encoding of the
input document entity is a good default for the encoding of the output
document.

-- Richard