Erratum: absent encoding declaration (was: Re: CSS validator stricter than XML validator)

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann (derhoermi@gmx.net)
Date: Thu, May 17 2001

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    From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: Philippe Le Hegaret <plh@w3.org>
Cc: www-validator@w3.org, www-validator-css@w3.org, xml-editor@w3.org
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 20:17:11 +0200
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Subject: Erratum: absent encoding declaration (was: Re: CSS validator stricter than XML validator)

* Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
>-- Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#charencoding
>Thu, 05 Oct 2000 12:19:51 GMT
>
>The following sentence in the same section is misleading:
>[[
> It is also a fatal error if an XML entity contains no encoding declaration
>and its content is not legal UTF-8 or UTF-16.
>]]
>
>and should read:
>
>"Unless an encoding is determined by a higher-level protocol, it is also a fatal
>error if an XML entity contains no encoding declaration and its content is not
>legal UTF-8 or UTF-16."

Could we have this clarification in the errata? Thanks.

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