Re: [xml-dev] Why is Encoding Metadata (e.g. encoding="UTF-8) put Inside the XML Document?

David Carlisle wrote:
> The reasons (quoted above) for this are sound in theory but a real pain
> in practice where it is often easy to put the right encoding
> declaration in the XML file and hard to get the right encoding specified
> in the mime headers. 
>   

Yeah. Like when you're creating content on a web server you don't 
control ... so you send email to your web administrator ....

Jonathan