- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 03:38:13 +0800 (CST)
- To: John Boyer <jboyer@PureEdge.com>
- cc: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org, w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, John Boyer wrote: > Hi Rick, > > I considered this feedback, as shown in the latest c14n issues document, but > came to the conclusion that I did not see anything confusing about > > "The content of the doc element is NOT the string #xC2#xA9 but rather the > two octets whose hexadecimal values are C2 and A9, which is the UTF-8 > encoding of the UCS codepoint for the copyright symbol (C)." > > which appears as the only note in the example. It seems impossible to miss. I missed it, twice! Or at least on two separate occassions I read the text, got identically confused and then later both times figured out what was going on (only to forget). In both cases, I think I assumed that there was a typo and the & had been missed out from the things that looked like numeric character references. I think it is bad speccing to present something that looks like XML but isnt. Having the explantation after the event is not much help, because the confusion has already ocurred. I hope you will consider my option. Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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