- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 22:04:31 -0400
- To: U35395@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>XML does not explicitly sanction the use of any other encodings. It is
>recognized, however, that many documents exist in other encodings. To
>support processors in dealing with this situation, an XML document may
>contain at its beginning, before any other text, markup, PIs, or white
>space, an Encoding Declaration PI matching
>
>EncDecl ::=
> '<?XML' S 'encoding' Eq ("'" Encoding "'")|('"' Encoding '"') S? '>'
>
>An XML processor may choose to read Encoding Declaration PIs and accept
>nonstandard encodings so declared. In validating processors such
>behavior must be at user option.
...
>An XML document which lacks both the Byte Order Mark and an Encoding
>Declaration PI must be in the UTF-8 encoding. It is an error for a
>document to be in an encoding other than that declared in its Encoding
>Declaration PI.
This CANNOT be REQUIRED behaviour. This is a gross hack!!! I also cannot
condone the clause "does not explicitly sanction".
Seems to me like here is another mailing list that I've wasted a lot
of time on...
Received on Thursday, 17 October 1996 22:06:08 UTC