[thelist] character encoding in coldfusion site using xml as data source

[Sarah Adams]

I have a small ColdFusion online store that is using an XML file as the 
data source for the catalog. It is a German site so there are a lot of 
accented characters throughout the site, and in the XML. With liberal 
use of the following line, I managed to get most of the accented 
characters in the site to display properly:

   <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="iso-8859-1">

But still all of the accented characters in the XML will not display 
correctly. I tried adding the following to the XML:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?>

But then I get the ColdFusion error "XML declaration may only begin 
entities." Any suggestions as to how I can set encoding for the XML file 
without throwing this error?

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sarah adams
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