- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2004 17:22:17 +0100
- To: MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
- Cc: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>, www-svg@w3.org, ietf-types@iana.org
On Tuesday, November 2, 2004, 4:45:40 PM, MURATA wrote: MM> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004 20:03:17 +0100 MM> Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> wrote: >> I was able to discuss this with Murata-san in Tokyo at SVG Open, and he >> agreed that the +xml convention, plus the deprecation of text/xml and >> associated charset handling weirdness of required us-ascii fallback, >> allows consistent handling MM> No, I did not agree to drop the charset parameter. What I said was that you agreed that there was consistent handling in the case where there was no charset parameter. Do you recall discussing that over lunch? Jon was there, too. We also discussed consistent handling of encoding among all media types; you had earlier stated that this was particularly needed for simple transcoders that did not know enough about xml not to break it. At that meeting, I suggested (and you agreed) that the presence of the +xml convention allowed such transcoders to reliably detect all xml media types whether the precise media type was recognized or not. I further suggested (and you seemed to agree) that two types of processing were desirable: a) (minimally) xml-aware transcoders - transcode, and update the xml encoding declaration so that it is consistent b) xml-unaware transcoders - not break xml well formednes, not transcode xml and a third type of processing was undesirable c) xml unaware transcoders that take well formed documents and make them malformed. Transcoders already do something similar, for example they do not attempt to transcode the bytes of JPEG images. MM> I did agree to deprecate text/xml. Yes, that part is already in the next draft (and the other text/* xml types) MM> I do believe that image/svg+xml should allow the charset parameter. So we still have some discussion to do. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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