- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:03:26 -0500
- To: WWW DOM <www-dom@w3.org>
XML text files can carry an optional byte order mark at the start of the file (before the XML Declaration or Text Declaration, if any). It's the responsibility of the parser and/or serializer to deal with that... so outside of the question this raises about whether our Load/Store API needs an option to control whether a BOM is to be generated, I don't think we have to worry about it. Java serialization is irrelevant to the DOM API, and I'm not quite sure why we're discussing it... or why the byte ordering question came up in the first place. The byte order in the DOMString is that of whatever datatype the binding has used as its DOMString type, and the programmer generally doesn't care. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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