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AW: AW: Problem parsing cp1252 with msxsl > UTF-8 ?


Hello,

yes, i understand, but why i get then in IE6 a parsing error ?
with
<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<de>ü</de>

Is this a browser bug?

Thanks,

Hans Braumüller


> Not true at all. Any encoding that you use with XML gives access to a
> subset of the full unicode character set as character data, other
> characters not in that encoding have to be accessed by character
> references (&#1234;) and can not be used in element and 
> attribute names.
> 
> utf-8 encoding encodes the whole of unicode which means you can use
> _all_ unicode characters as character data and in element names
> (including German, but also arabic, japanese, ...)
> 
> If you use iso-8859-1 then you are restricted to 200 or so characters
> that may be used in element names and accessed as character data.
> 
> David
> 
> 

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