- From: ANOQ of the Sun <anoq@vip.cybercity.dk>
- Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 20:11:04 +0200
- To: DOM List <www-dom@w3.org>
Smith, Bennett wrote: > This discussion of wchar/wstring in IDL worries me. If it is true that > the various operating systems implement wide characters in various byte > lengths and encodings, how does proposing that a sequence be used in the > DOM IDL help anything? It seems to me that by using the sequence in the > DOM IDL spec. you are then asking each implementor to handle the data > marshaling/unmarshaling for wide characters to/from any other platform. > Is this true? As I see it, you will only be converting text when reading input from somewhere (an XML-file or whatever) and building a DOM hierachy. You might need this conversion anyway, depending on the file format etc. Then there's a conversion when rendering text output from a DOM hierachy, but that might still be necessay, depending on how / where it is rendered. If at least the DOM spec. is consitent, you have rules to follow. Cheers -- , ANOQ of the Sun / Johnny Andersen E-Mail: anoq@vip.cybercity.dk or anoq@berlin-consortium.org Homepage: http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc25861/
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