Document: xmlEncoding property

{{APIRef("DOM")}}

Returns the encoding as determined by the XML declaration. Should be null if unspecified or unknown.

[!WARNING] Do not use this attribute; it has been removed from the DOM Level 4 specification and is no longer supported in Firefox 10.0.

Consider the following XML Declaration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>

Then, the result should be "UTF-16".

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