detectXMLEncoding

detectXMLEncoding(xmlString) → string · XML

Detect the encoding declared in an XML document's declaration.

xmlString (required): XML string or UDM value

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// Input: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><Order>...</Order>
// See Chapter 22 for XML processing.
{
  encoding: detectXMLEncoding($input)
}
// Output: {"encoding": "ISO-8859-1"}

// Input: <Order>...</Order>  (no encoding declaration — defaults to UTF-8)
{
  encoding: detectXMLEncoding($input)
}
// Output: {"encoding": "UTF-8"}

Also: convertXMLEncoding(xml, targetEncoding) re-encodes the document.

detectXMLEncoding ​

detectXMLEncoding