Re: [xml-dev] 15 elementary truths about XML

[Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@gmail.com>]

> 6. XML processors always interpret the bytes in XML files as characters.
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> 7. Thus, XML processors interpret XML files as a sequence of characters.
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> 8. There are various character encoding schemas, such as ASCII and UTF-8.
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Don't forget that Unicode encodings can require more than one byte to
represent a character...