XML erratum -- Bytes vs Octets

Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition), in:

   4.2.2 External Entities
   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-external-ent

states:

|  URI references require encoding and escaping of certain characters. The
|  disallowed characters include all non-ASCII characters, plus the
|  excluded characters listed in Section 2.4 of [IETF RFC 2396], except for
|  the number sign (#) and percent sign (%) characters and the square
|  bracket characters re-allowed in [IETF RFC 2732]. Disallowed characters
|  must be escaped as follows: 
|  
|  Each disallowed character is converted to UTF-8 [IETF RFC 2279] as one
|  or more bytes. 
|  
|  Any octets corresponding to a disallowed character are escaped with the
|  URI escaping mechanism (that is, converted to %HH, where HH is the
|  hexadecimal notation of the byte value). 
|  
|  The original character is replaced by the resulting character sequence. 

We seem to have two bytes and one octet.  Please can we standardise 
on one term or the other.

Misha

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