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- From: Miles Sabin <msabin@cromwellmedia.co.uk>
- To: 'David Brownell' <db@Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 21:43:09 -0000
David Brownell wrote,
> "Richard L. Goerwitz" wrote:
> > David Brownell wrote:
> > > And more to the point, XML processors aren't
> > > required to report such low level character
> > > encoding errors ... this would be one.
> >
> > On the face of things, this doesn't make sense.
>
> For example, character encodings are typically handled
> many layers below the XML processor. That processor
> shouldn't be faulted for behaviors of the underlying
> processor.
Most of the time yes ... but remember we're discussing
the interaction between encoding detection and encoding
_declarations_. An XML processor has to have some
involvement in that.
Cheers,
Miles
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Miles Sabin Cromwell Media
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+44 (0)181 410 2230 London, W6 0LJ
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