- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 20:15:51 +1000
- To: Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Dave Peterson wrote: A question we need to address is: "What should an XML system do when presented with a numeric character reference for a character for which it has no internal representation?" I think all proper XML systems should be 16-bit. If a system can only handle 8-bit characters, it is not world-ready, and should not be of interest to this SGML-on-the-Web group. Let the dead bury the dead. (This is not not to say that 8-bit SGML tools will not be useful for processing and generating Western XML documents; merely that they only work partially, on a subset of possible XML documents.) A second question we should be asking is: "Should XML permit numeric character references using non-SGML (i.e., undefined in the document character set parameter) character numbers?" This determines just how one should write the document character set parameter for XML's SGML declaration. What is the status of the SGML declaration of the XML 1.0 draft? I think it should be the exemplar declaration, and every creator of an XML document should be able to assume that every good XML system implements it. Rick Jelliffe
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