How the encodings work? Which encodings can be used in XML?
To avoid errors
XML encoding while using PHP
I heard about
Character Encodings:
Source Encodings:
Target Encodings:
May i know what is the Difference between them?
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I think you can use any ISO combination in your xml declaration but the ones you usually see is UTF-8 and iso-8859-1 (for europe). Usually UTF-8 is a good choice unless you have lot's of strange characters
EDIT: I think you're confusing something like an XSLT transformation/parsing with XML instead of just the actual XML document.
An XML document has a character encoding. That is declared through the xml declaration. When you parse/transform XML you can many times separately define what the source encoding is and what the encoding the output should have (the target encoding)
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@mko:)These are the types of source encoding i know that ... actualy i want to know the character encoding and target encoding ?nd also some other encoding if available – Harsh Jun 10 '11 at 6:57
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1. Conducted at the time of Parsing 2. Cannot be changed during parser lifetime 3. Types: UTF-8 (PHP uses this type for internal Document representation; Bytes up to 21) 4. US-ASCII (Single byte) 5. ISO-8859-1(Single byte; Default) – Harsh Jun 10 '11 at 7:04
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Actualy i want to know the Basic difference between these encodings? how they works? – Harsh Jun 10 '11 at 7:11
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I don't think you ever really need to use anything different then UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding. You only need to use UTF-16 for stuff like japanese, just make sure you save the file in the correct format as well as specify it in the declaration. Some parsers can use the Byte-order-mark to infer the encoding, but it's optional – Homde Jun 10 '11 at 7:18
