Re: Reviewing 3023-bis [was: XML Core WG Status and Open Actions as of 2013 September 23]

Paul Grosso scripsit:

> Would you accept an ACTION to review the latest 3023-bis?

Here's what I've found:

1) In Section 3, "In particular, for transports other than HTTP [RFC2616]
or HTTPS (which uses a MIME-like mechanism).  the UTF-16 family, UCS-4,
and UTF-32 are not allowed" has a misplaced period; it should be at the
end and the existing period should be a comma.
"allowed".

2) In Section 3, the sentence beginning "Thus, although all XML
processors" says "(except for HTTP)", but should say "(except for HTTP,
HTTPS, and other protocols if base64 transport encoding is in use)".
This is spelled out later in the document.

3) In Section 3, "Furthermore, such media types may allow UTF-8 or UTF-16
only and prohibit other charsets" has a misplaced "only" which makes
it unclear; it should read "Furthermore, such media types may forbid
charsets other than UTF-8 (or other than UTF-8 or UTF-16)"

4) In Section 3.1, for "editting" read "editing".

5) In Section 3.6 there is another problematic "only" and a bad comma: for
"The charset parameter MUST only be used, when the charset is reliably
known and agrees with the in-band XML encoding declaration" read "The
charset parameter MUST NOT be used if the charset is not reliably known.
If it is used, it MUST agree with the XML encoding declaration."

6) In Section 4, the sentence "Similarly, when converting from another
encoding into "utf-16", the BOM MUST be added after conversion is
complete" is incorrect; it should read, "Similarly, when converting
from another encoding into "utf-16", either an appropriate encoding
declaration MUST be added or modified, or a BOM MUST be added."

7) In Section 11, for "recipients of XML MIME entities may be a risk"
read "recipients of XML MIME entities may be at risk".

In the randomly chosen .sig below, for "report" read "RFC".  :-)

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Received on Monday, 30 September 2013 05:20:53 UTC