- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:35:42 +0100
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Cc: www-svg@w3.org, ietf-types@iana.org
On Monday, November 1, 2004, 10:19:01 PM, Bjoern wrote: BH> * Chris Lilley wrote: >>BH> The W3C Markup Validator considers resources such as >> >>BH> Content-Type: image/svg+xml;charset=iso-8859-1 >> >>BH> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> >>BH> ... >> >>BH> ISO-8859-1 encoded. >> >>Yes, there are two inconsistent pieces of metadata and the markup >>validator correctly applies the rules to determine which to use. BH> What makes you think there is inconsistent metadata here? The encoding is declared in two places, and they are different. One is the charset parameter, and one is the xml encoding declaration. BH> The charset parameter in the example above has no semantics that BH> could be inconsistent with other information. Its clearly inconsistent! The encoding declaration has the same semantic. It agree that there is a mechanism to *resolve* the ambiguity, but the inconsistency is clearly there. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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