- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:58:45 +0200
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Cc: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>, Daniel Glazman <daniel@glazman.org>, Norm Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Unlike quote style or intra-tag whitespace, the xml declaration _is_ > is part of the information content of an XML document: the XML Infoset > spec. [1] defines relevant properties for the Document infoitem. The > XML DOM should implement the Infoset spec. > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.document How did the infoset spec end up considering that stuff part of the information content? * [version] is always 1.0 now that everyone has given up on 1.1, so it's useless to expose an API for it. * [character encoding scheme] in the infoset does not appear to map 1-to-1 to DOM xmlCharset. It does seem to map 1-to-1 to DOM characterSet. * [standalone] is a parse-time promise. What business does it have in the infoset? -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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