- From: Langer, Paul <Paul.Langer@softwareag.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:09:50 +0100
- To: "'www-international@w3.org'" <www-international@w3.org>
-----Original Message----- From: Nir Dagan [mailto:nir@nirdagan.com] Sent: Mittwoch, 9. Februar 2000 18:47 Subject: charset of XML (was RE: Localization of XML) <disclaimer> I am not arguing that the encoding declaration in the XML declaration should be omitted or wrong, if shipping XML via HTTP. At Software AG we try to be good citizens and always send both, the charset parameter of the media type and the encoding declaration in the XML declaration (we even try to keep both identical and correct). </disclaimer> > I'm afraid that the very same reference (4.3.3 of XML1.0 spec.) says: > > "Parsed entities which are stored in an encoding other > than UTF-8 or UTF-16 must begin with a text declaration > containing an encoding declaration:..." Please note "stored". Things are different on the wire. HTTP provides content negotiation. Servers may choose to transcode the body of requests to meet desired formats/encodings/languages and whatsoever. We are talking about shipping XHTML with the media type "text/xml". See "XML Media Types" (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2376.txt) for details. All the best, Paul -------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul Langer E-mail Paul.Langer@softwareag.com Software AG Tel. +49-6151-92-1912 Uhlandstr. 12 Fax +49-6151-92-1613 D-64297 Darmstadt
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