Options for Commands, Statements, and Procedures for NLS

XMLENCODING= Option

Overrides the encoding of an XML document to import or export an external document.

Valid in:	LIBNAME statement for the XML engine
Category:	Data Access
LIBNAME statement for the XML engine:	Associates a SAS libref with an XML document to import or export an external document

Syntax
Options
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Syntax

XMLENCODING= 'encoding-value'

Options

encoding-value

specifies the encoding to use when you read, write, copy, or save an external file. The value for XMLENCODING= indicates that the external file has a different encoding from the current session encoding.

For details, see SBCS, DBCS, and Unicode Encoding Values for Transcoding Data.

Default:

SAS uses the current session encoding.