Re: Doctype and encoding storage

> Hi,
>
> I have been using eXist daily on production systems from about 2 years
> and I have just discovered today that I am not able to store and
> retrieve an XML document without information loss ;-)
>
> First of all, the following line is removed when I store documents
> having it as first line:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
>
> Document is stored without error (via Interactive client or Java XML-RPC
> API) but the line disappeared once retrieved (via Interactive client or
> Java XML-RPC API).  Via REST interface the line comes back but with
> UTF-8 encoding (I suppose it as been rewritten).
>
> I notice the same behaviour with DOCTYPE definitions like this one:
>
> <!DOCTYPE dictionnaire SYSTEM "http://toto.ca/blabla.dtd">
>
> Note that the given DTD isn't recorded in catalog.xml and I am currently
> using eXist 1.2.6 on Linux (Ubuntu Server).
>
> Am I wrong?  How to keep these lines when storing document in eXist
> database?  The encoding is very important for me: how to be sure that
> eXist will store/retrieve it correctly ?
>
> Thank you very much in advance for your help!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Benoit (mercibe)
>
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