- From: Sean B. Palmer <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 00:43:26 -0000
- To: <www-validator@w3.org>
Hi, The W3C Validator begs for a character encoding even when the page in question is being validated as XML, and the XML declaration is missing. According to the XML specification, if a declaration is missing, then the encoding is either UTF-8 (and possibly its subset, US-ASCII) or UTF-16. I know that there is much room for debate in this area (given section 6 in RFC 2854)... but it seems to me that the validator should be able to gague the character encoding of an XHTML document without an XML declaration. Surely you can't validate something as an XML document, and then ignore other aspects of the XML specification? -- Kindest Regards, Sean B. Palmer @prefix : <http://purl.org/net/swn#> . :Sean :homepage <http://purl.org/net/sbp/> .
Received on Sunday, 3 March 2002 19:43:11 UTC