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Re: translating between character sets
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- Subject: Re: translating between character sets
- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo at metalab dot unc dot edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 14:21:10 -0400
- References: <39EC3B25.CDB715E@web.de> <200010171329.NAA06551@nag.co.uk>
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At 1:29 PM +0000 10/17/00, David Carlisle wrote:
>XML DTDs can not specify an encoding. Document instances can use any
>supported encoding with any DTD.
>
They most certainly can! This isn't obvious from the spec but if you
pay close attention to the productions you'll note that an external
DTD subset can include a text declaration; e.g.
<?xml encoding="ISO-8859-10">
<!ELEMENT NAME (#PCDATA)>
<!-- etc. -->
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