Re: [xml-dev] Encodings and how they're specified

["Christopher R. Maden" <crism@maden.org>]

On 07/05/2011 10:22 AM, Joe Fawcett wrote:
> Could someone explain step-by-step what happens when a parser opens a
> document, I still don't see how it manages to read the encoding mentioned in
> the XML declaration with only the BOM available?

See <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#charencoding > and <URL:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-guessing >.

~Chris
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