Fwd: Errata: “or by the Byte Order Mark” lackign in section 4.3.3.

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Subject:  Errata: “or by the Byte Order Mark” lackign in section 4.3.3.
Resent-Date:  Thu, 19 Dec 2013 02:18:36 +0000
Resent-From:  xml-editor@w3.org
Date:  Thu, 19 Dec 2013 03:18:05 +0100
From:  Leif Halvard Silli <xn--mlform-iua@xn--mlform-iua.no>
Organization:  Målform.no
To:  xml-editor@w3.org



In section 4.3.3. of XML 1.0 fifth edition[1], please add ”or by the
Byte Order Mark” in the following passage, as illustrated by the <INS>
element:

   ]]In the absence of information provided by an external transport
protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME) <INS>or by the Byte Order Mark</INS>, it
is a fatal error for an entity including an encoding declaration to be
presented to the XML processor in an encoding other than that named in
the declaration,[[

The purpose of this error fix is
a) to take the consequence of the fact that the BOM is a method
    of setting the encoding that is *external* to the XML document
    production (it is a encoding signature and not part of the
    document production.)
b) that it makes sense to treat all external methods for setting
    the encoding the same way. That is: They should all be able to
    override the internal encoding without causing fatal error.
    Currently, it is only external *transport* protocols that have
    that privilege.
c) that Web browsers and a number of other parses already *do*
    ignore the XML encoding declaration whenever there is a BOM.
d) Given that the spec already says the BOM can override the
    XML encoding declaration *and* the new information that
    3023bis is going to say that the BOM takes precedence over
    the charset parameter of MIME/HTTP,[2] it would be odd if
    the feature (BOM) that have higher precedence than the
    charset parameter would not be have the same ”privilege”
    with regard to making parsers *ignore* the XML encoding
    declaration.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding
[2]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2013OctDec/0086.html
-- 
leif halvard silli