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- From: "James Tauber" <jtauber@jtauber.com>
- To: "David Brownell" <david-b@pacbell.net>, "John Cowan" <cowan@locke.ccil.org>, "XML Dev" <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 12:15:41 +0800
> Actually, that's not correct either. My general advice is to pass a
> URI to the parser -- which is required to do the correct thing!
[..]
> In fact, my own basic guidance is never to pass any sort of I/O stream
> (InputStream -or- Reader!) to the parser; let the parser work from the
> URI, if at all possible. It's normally quite possible, and it's a lot
> less likely to handle the encodings wrong than application code!!
Hence James Clark's solution (make a URI out of the filename), which I now
use. There's a moral here and those of you who know James Clark probably
learnt it a long time ago :-)
James Tauber
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