- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 13:55:41 -0400
- To: MURATA Makoto <murata@hokkaido.email.ne.jp>
- Cc: ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, www-tag@w3.org
MURATA Makoto scripsit:
> This implies that XQuery should introduce its own mechanism (see [4])
> and that the compact syntax of RELAX NG should introduce another.
I don't see that either of these are self-describing in the relevant sense,
any more than a C program is.
> As far as I know, the charset parameter is the only generic mechanism. I
> know the charset parameter is not working well, but I do not see any other
> generic mechanisms.
It's an acceptable mechanism when there is no internal declaration present.
It causes problems when internal declarations are or may be present.
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