Hello Larry,
At 23:36 03/09/18 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
Why is transcoding nearly certain to be wrong with XML?
The argument is that people are not able to set up
their servers correctly.
Or, to put it another way, why not limit the use
of text/xml to XML instances for which transcoding
is certain not to be wrong, and for which US-ASCII
is acceptable (because the XML uses numeric character
references or character entities, is only used to
code a limited schema with numeric data, etc.?)
Limiting the scope is less radical than deprecating.
I'm not sure this makes sense. For types with mostly
just numeric data, text/... may be the wrong type.
And defining types that are XML, but restricted to
US-ASCII would be a really bad idea for types that
actually can contain text.
Regards, Martin.