Re: How do xml parsers handle encoding?

Martin Honnen wrote:

And XML parsers are required to check that documents are properly encoded. However browser like Firefox or Opera I think might not report any such violation. For instance I saved an XML document as UTF-8 but with an XML declaration saying encoding="UTF-16" and then loaded with Firefox 2.0 and Opera 9 and they both did not report an error, instead treated the document as UTF-8. IE 6 reported an error.

For Mozilla, the FAQ http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_Web_Developer_FAQ#How_is_the_treatment_of_application.2Fxhtml.2Bxml_documents_different_from_the_treatment_of_text.2Fhtml_documents.3F says:
"Most well-formedness constraints are enforced. (Currently Mozilla does not catch character encoding errors, because the document is re-encoded using a lenient encoding converter before the document reaches the XML parser. This is a bug.)"



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