Directory of Encoding Resources

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The characters in the XML document can be encoded in different formats. XML uses the Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16) character set by default, but other encodings can be used if they are declared in the XML declaration at the beginning of the document.

Resources in This Category

• Chinese XML FAQ (in English)

  http://xml.ascc.net/en/utf-8/faq.html
  FAQ about Chinese document encodings, and how they relate to XML. Also includes links and software.

• Entry-Level Unicode for XML

  http://www.hackcraft.net/xmlUnicode/
  A "just enough education to perform" guide to Unicode and ISO 10646 for authors of XML parsers and other software that processes XML.

• Expressing Simple Dublin Core in RDF/XML

  http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/
  Explains how to encode the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set V1.1 (DCMES) in XML, provides a DTD to validate the documents and describes a method to link them from web pages.

• ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup

  http://www.global-translation-services.com/iso8859.html
  A commented graphical overview of the ISO 8859 character sets by Roman Czyborra.

• MSDN: How to Encode XML Data

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468560.aspx
  Article explaining how character encoding works and specifically how it works in XML and the MSXML DOM.

• The Unicode Consortium

  http://www.unicode.org/
  The official site with information and resources for programmers, implementers and others involved in computer globalization work.

• What ASN.1 can offer to XML

  http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/xml/
  XML Encoding Rules for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and the ASN.1 Markup Language [ITU-T Rec. X.693 | ISO/IEC 8825-4].

• XER - XML Encoding Rules

  http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/languages/X.693-0112.pdf
  Idea to standardize rules that would allow for information described in ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation) to be carried in XML.

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