The encoding attribute

• Used when parse="text"

• Value is the name of the text file's character encoding, as in the encoding declaration in the XML declaration

• e.g. ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16, MacRoman, etc.

<slide xmlns:xinclude="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
  <title>The href attribute</title>
  
<ul>
  <li>Identifies the document to be included with a URI</li>
  <li>The document at the URI replaces the <code>include</code> 
      element in the including document</li>
  <li>The <code>xinclude</code> prefix is bound to the http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude
  namespace URI. 
  </li>
</ul>  

<pre><code><xinclude:include parse="text" encoding="ISO-8859-1" 
                  href="processing_xml_with_java.xml"/>
</code></pre>
        
  <description>
      A slide from Elliotte Rusty Harold's XML Hypertext seminar at
      <host_ref/>, <date_ref/>
    </description>
  <last_modified>October 26, 2000</last_modified>
</slide>