Re: Revised SGML Declaration for XML 1.0 from James Clark on 1997-07-03 (w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org from July 1997)

From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 1997 18:15:01 +0700
To: <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
Message-Id: <199707031113.FAA17564@jclark.com>

> From: Murata Makoto <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>

> We believe that 
> the declaration should reference to UCS-4 rather than UCS-2.

Remember that numbers in the SGML declaration are restricted to 8 digits
(because the SGML declaration uses the reference concrete syntax), so there
is no way legally in SGML to declare UCS-4 as the document character set.

James

Received on Thursday, 3 July 1997 07:13:27 UTC