- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 08:18:46 -0400
- To: ricko@allette.com.au
- CC: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
>> Internet experts at Keio University (W3C host) and SGML experts >> in Japan have discussed the encoding detection issue. Here is >> my (personal) summary of our agreement. > >Looks good. Simple. Checking heuristics and prefering MIME to PIs >in case of disagreement become (formally) implementors' and applications' >error handling strategies, and outside the realm of valid XML. The proposal mentioned nothing at all about error recovery. >> Other information or huristics such as "Metadata provided >> by the native OS file system or by document management >> software" (4.3.3, Part 1) should not be used. > >If you say MIME and PI must agree, else it indicates a system error, >then surely you should also require MIME and OS metadata must >agree? Not necessarily. The file could be transcoded before being transmitted (quite common in DynaWeb, for example).
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