- From: Grosso, Paul <pgrosso@ptc.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:45:47 -0500
- To: <public-xml-core-wg@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@ccil.org] > Sent: Wednesday, 2010 January 27 15:41 > To: Grosso, Paul > Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org > Subject: Re: AssocSS Issue kay-3 [was: my thoughts on Mike Kay's > AssocSS comments] > > Grosso, Paul scripsit: > > > Here is the latest in the "charset on xml-stylesheet pi" issue on > > which I hope you can comment. This is recorded as Issue kay-3 at > > http://www.w3.org/XML/2010/01/disposition.html#issue-kay-3 . > > To recap what I said in the meeting: charset is never anything more > than > a hint which a browser can use to discard spreadsheets whose encoding I assume s/spreadsheets/stylesheets/ > it > cannot handle, or a last-resort mechanism of determining the encoding > if neither the HTTP header nor the document contains any information. > Not having an XML encoding declaration means that the encoding of an > XML document is UTF-8 if there is no 16-BOM, or UTF-16 if there is, > so in effect it is true that the charset PA is fairly worthless for > stylesheets written in XML. Do you have any recommendation for one or both of: 1. wording to add to the spec 2. a response to Michael on this topic? paul
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