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Re: What makes illegal characters non-conformant

From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:54:08 +0100
To: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
Message-ID: <f5by6o5h4q7.fsf@hildegard.inf.ed.ac.uk>
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Geoffrey Sneddon writes:

> On 23 Sep 2009, at 15:12, Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>> although http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/char_alias.xml
>> is _not_ broken per the XML specification. . .
>
> It should be, per:
>
>> It is a fatal error if an XML entity is determined (via default,
>> encoding declaration, or higher-level protocol) to be in a certain
>> encoding but contains byte sequences that are not legal in that
>> encoding.

You're right, I was mistaken.

> That said, though processors must throw a fatal error, I can't see
> anything saying the document isn't well-formed (bug?).

Hmm.

ht
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