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RE: How to read the encoding of an XML document


At 11:07 AM 10/25/2001 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> > My XML document has a specific encoding.
> >
> >   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
> >   <document>data goes here</document>
> >
> > What XSL do I use to read the value of the encoding attribute?
>
>You can't. By the time the XML parser has done its work, the original
>encoding of the file is of no further interest, since all the characters are
>now in Unicode.

When you say Unicode, does that equate to UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 or 
something else?  Or does the answer depend upon the XML parser you are 
using, which in my case is MSXML3.0?

--James Garriss


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