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Leif Halvard Silli commented on XERCESC-1967:
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Note that case 8.20 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023#section-8.20) is
'text/xml'. The RFC does not discuss transcoding for application/xml (whcih
e.g. application/xmlxhtml+xml' is a subtype of - so says Mark Piligrim at
least: http://feedparser.org/docs/character-encoding.html )
For application/xml, the RFC only presents "because the HTTP RFC says so"
justifiction. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023#section-3.2 And transcoding
should not happen for application/xml, as much as I understand.
Note, also, that all this started because of a bug against HTML5/XHTML5:
http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12897 In my view (outlined in the
bug), one should consider give priority to the (UTF-8) BOM over both HTTP and
the XML encoding declaration. This, in the "interests of interoperability", as
XML 1.0 puts it (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-guessing-with-ext-info)
> Xerces ignores (deletes, swallow, ignores) the UTF-8 BOM and also ignores the
> charset parameter of the HTTP content-type: header
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> Key: XERCESC-1967
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESC-1967
> Project: Xerces-C++
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Non-Validating Parser
> Affects Versions: 3.1.1
> Environment: Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Intel).
> (http://mirrorservice.nomedia.no/apache.org//xerces/c/3/binaries/xerces-c-3.1.1-x86-macosx-gcc-4.0.tar.gz)
> And also tested the XMLmind XML editor on same platorm.
> Reporter: Leif Halvard Silli
> Original Estimate: 4h
> Remaining Estimate: 4h
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> [1] http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
> [2] http://www.w3.org/mid/[email protected]
> It is a XML 1.0 spec vioation. well-formed violation.
> Test cases without XML declaration: http://malform.no/testing/html5/bom/
> Test cases *with* XML declartion to be added later.
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