Fwd: FYI: UTF-8 BOM is now official

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Date: 26.07.01 14:13
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From: Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com>
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I see from the W3C web-site that the XML Core WG has created an errata 22
[1] addressing the utf-8 BOM issue.  It's now official, XML Processors are
required to accept UTF-8 Byte Order Marks (BOMs) at the start of external
entities.

Happily our XML Validator [2] has always taken this approach ;-)

Regards
~Rob

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Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
http://www.elcel.com/

[1] http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-2e-errata
[2] http://www.elcel.com/products/xmlvalid.html



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I see from the W3C web-site that the XML Core WG has created an errata 22
[1] addressing the utf-8 BOM issue.  It's now official, XML Processors are
required to accept UTF-8 Byte Order Marks (BOMs) at the start of external
entities.

Happily our XML Validator [2] has always taken this approach ;-)

Regards
~Rob

--
Rob Lugt
ElCel Technology
http://www.elcel.com/

[1] http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-V10-2e-errata
[2] http://www.elcel.com/products/xmlvalid.html



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