UTF-8 BOM w/ ISO-8859-1 encoding pseudo attribute

[Erik Wahlstrom]

I have an XML document that includeds a UTF-8 BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF). The document is properly encoded as UTF-8. However the XMLDecl encoding pseudo attribute indicates 'ISO-8859-1'. So how SHOULD the XML processor handle this? Is it a fatal error? Clearly it cannot be processed as ISO-8859-1 because the content is scrambled. It appears the Xerces is parsing it according to ISo-8859-1 even though the BOM is there. Hmm. Any sugestions? How should one handle this case?

Erik

 

[Richard Tobin]

I have an XML document that includeds a UTF-8 BOM (0xEF 0xBB 0xBF). The document is properly encoded as UTF-8. However the XMLDecl encoding pseudo attribute indicates 'ISO-8859-1'. So how SHOULD the XML processor handle this?

XML (3rd edition) 4.3.3 says:

In the absence of information provided by an external transport protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME), it is a fatal error for an entity including an encoding declaration to be presented to the XML processor in an encoding other than that named in the declaration

-- Richard