On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:29:48AM +1300, BJ Chippindale wrote: > Doesn't this limit the efficacy and universality of XML? You can't > count on > the sender actually putting the encoding where it belongs, or even > including one > at all.
I don't understand what you're talking about. The part of the spec covering encoding detection is http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing have you read it ? The topic was embedding an XML instance with its own encoding into another instance. An XML entity can be of only one encoding flagged at the beginning, which is a very sound principle. Embedding an XML instance within another as character data is just refusing to use the extensibility of XML and a fairly broken design. This is my point of view on the subject of the initial post. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Desktop team http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
