- From: François Yergeau <francois@yergeau.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:16:40 -0700
- To: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
Paul Grosso a écrit : > ACTION to Francois: Provide a suggestion for PEX5--XML > encoding detection in parse="text" (esp. wrt. *+xml > and charsets). The commenter says "It is not clear whether this also applies to other Media Types such as "message" or "image", e.g. for Message/Email+XML or image/svg+xml." However, RFC 3023 (which establishes the +xml convention) is pretty clear that it applies to all MIME types: "Applications may match for types that represent XML MIME entities by comparing the subtype to the pattern '*/*+xml'." (Section 7. A Naming Convention for XML-Based Media Types) So we are on solid ground, we might just wish to add a note to make it excruciatingly clear. But then some media types (e.g. image/svg+xml) do not have a charset parameter. I don't think this is a problem: XInclude says "the encoding is recognized as specified in XML", and then XML says, substantially, to look inside the entity for BOM or encoding declaration "in the absence of information provided by an external transport protocol". It seems clear to me that for a media type which forbids a charset parameter, we are automatically in that situation and all is said. -- François
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