Re: XML and HTML Interoperability

To: murray@spyglass.com
Subject: Re: XML and HTML Interoperability
From: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:39:46 -0500
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>a. Both the document character set and encoding are different from HTML.
>   XML uses Unicode and UTF-2/UTF-8 (allowing other encodings), so unless
>   the browser is already i18n-ed, this may be a big problem.

The actual model is almost identical, though the emphasis on
Unicode is stronger. I think you find HTML following this path
too (more people are commiting to Unicode etc.).

Would that the "Unicode Lingua Franca" idea had taken off...

References:

XML and HTML Interoperability

From: murray@spyglass.com (Murray Altheim)

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