- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:28:27 -0500
- To: Richard Tobin <richard@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, François Yergeau <francois@yergeau.com>, public-xml-core-wg <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
Richard Tobin scripsit: > It seems to me now that if normalization is going to be done, it > should be done when the document when it is read in, not at random > points later on. And XML 1.1 says that input (from non-unicode > sources) SHOULD be normalized. What's meant is that the input SHOULD already be normalized by its creator, not that the parser normalize it. On the contrary, parsers SHOULD check normalization, and MUST NOT do normalization themselves. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#sec-normalization-checking . A fortiori, IRIs should be normalized by the creator, not the parser. -- When I'm stuck in something boring John Cowan where reading would be impossible or (who loves Asimov too) rude, I often set up math problems for cowan@ccil.org myself and solve them as a way to pass http://www.ccil.org/~cowan the time. --John Jenkins http://www.reutershealth.com
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