Re: Requesting IESG Approval for the Media Type application/xslt+xml, application/xquery+xml, and application/xquery

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Liam Quin wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 10:14:57PM +0100, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
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>>2).
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>>>The syntax of XQuery is expressed in Unicode but may be written with  
>>>any Unicode-compatible character encoding, including UTF-8 or UTF-16,  
>>>or transported as US-ASCII or Latin-1 with Unicode characters outside  
>>>the range of the given encoding represented using an XML-style &#xddd;  
>>>syntax.
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>>Is there any good reason for allowing Latin-1? IETF pretty much settled  
>>on only using US-ASCII, UTF-8 (and rarely UTF-16).
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>To the best of my memory it was for in response to a comment regarding
>HTTP cpmpatibility, but, there is also no good reason to forbid it at
>this point, with over 50 XQuery implementations in the field.
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>For XQuery 1.1 we could possibly disallow Latin-1, but I don't think
>we'd gain anything now.  If we were still in 2005, we'd be in a
>position to change such things, and I think do a better job.
>Removing it could only hurt interop now I think.
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If this is done for backward compatibility, this is Ok with me.

Please address Martin's concern about Latin-1 not being registered.