- From: Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:18:28 +0100
- To: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- CC: "Grosso, Paul" <pgrosso@ptc.com>, public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
- Message-ID: <4B4E38A4.8080503@kosek.cz>
John Cowan wrote:
> Grosso, Paul scripsit:
>> I would be more tempted to align xml-model with xml-stylesheet
>> and http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets and HTTP, etc.
>
> "Charset" is a deprecated synonym for "encoding" (the mapping between
> characters and octet sequences). It's deprecated because it's easily
> confused with a mathematical set of characters, which is called a
> "character repertoire" in CharSpeak.
>
> In this case, however, I think that compatibility with the xml-stylesheet
> PI and the HTML A and LINK elements is more important, so I recommend
> "charset" for xml-model.
I forgot that xml-stylesheet uses "charset". In this light I can live
with "charset" in order to align with xml-stylesheet. Anyway this
pseudo-attribute would be used very very rarely on xml-model.
Jirka
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