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From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi(_at_)gmx(_dot_)net>
To: chris(_at_)w3(_dot_)org
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:27:53 +0200
Subject: Re: XML media types, charset, TAG findings
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* Chris Lilley wrote:
Coupled with the deprecation of the text/xml and
text/xml-external-parsed-entity types (and thus insulation from the
particular encoding testrictions of text/*) we are now, in this revision
of the document, in a position to be a little stronger:
The encoding declaration in an XML document and the charset (if
provided) MUST be consistent.
That is insufficient as it does not define what it means for these to be
consistent, how implementations are required to determine whether this
requirement has been met and what processors are required to do when
these are determined to be inconsistent. Without a complete proposal it
is most difficult to cite any reactions on this matter. I would
generally support removing the often ignored complexity that the charset
parameter introduces, with your proposal however, even if completely
specified, I would worry that this increases the complexity rather than
removing it in which case this would seem counter-productive.
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