Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - Character entities and document encoding [Thread Next] Re: [xml-dev] Character entities and document encodingTo: <xml-dev@-----.---.---> Date: 3/2/2004 10:53:00 PM > I guess the fundamental question is: how are character entities > interpreted in relation to the document encoding (i.e. what's the > order of evaluation)? If that's not the fundamental question then > I'm missing something :-)) The xml spec (1.0, 3rd ed.) says: 4.1 Character and Entity References [Definition: A character reference refers to a specific character in the ISO/IEC 10646 character set, for example one not directly accessible from available input devices.] Not being an expert, I think this means that character references are independent of the document's encoding, and may be used to include characters that don't exist in that encoding. -tor | ||||||
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