- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 21:44:45 -0400
- To: Johnny Stenback <jst@w3c.jstenback.com>, Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Cc: "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>
At 11:27 AM -0700 9/17/03, Johnny Stenback wrote: >Francois Yergeau wrote: >> LS8) It should be specified that DOMSerializers MUST be able to serialize in >> UTF-8 and both byte-orders of UTF-16, to close the loop with XML parsers >> which are obligated to read these. > >The DOM WG decided against requiring support for all of those >encodings, but it did decide to require support for one or more of >those encodins. I'd ask the working group to reconsider this one. It seems to be asking for non-compatibility of code. I think a minimum of one encoding should be required for all implementations, preferably UTF-8; and I really don't think it would be that onerous to require all three. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA
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