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XML and german umlauts

I have a problem with german umlauts like ö, ä in xml.

I have these umlauts in the xml source. When reading the source with Internet Explorer 5.0, i always get an error message. The error message is: character is not allowed.

Thanks for helping.

-fs
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avner

try it this way with the german encoding :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="DIN_66003"?>
<XMLROOT>
<DATA>ö, ä in </DATA>
</XMLROOT>



or try to escape those chars :

ö =

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I've been "solving" this problem by stating at the first line of the XML doc,
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

What I would prefer is that the MSXML parser actually encodes the strings I give it, in a format/encoding I can choose. But there doesn't seem to be a documented option for that with MSXML3.

So I'm searching myself; please do not accept this comment as answer.
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