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- From: Steve Schafer <pandeng@telepath.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 21:55:50 -0600
I have a question regarding what appears to be an inconsistency
between the original XML 1.0 spec and one of the errata. Erratum E44
contains the following:
"Add the following to the second paragraph after the list (this also
takes care of the previous erratum on UTF-7): 'Note: Since external
parsed entities in UTF-16 may begin with any character...'"
Whereas the second paragraph of section 4.3.3 says:
"Entities encoded in UTF-16 must begin with the Byte Order Mark..."
I'm inclined to believe the original spec. If an external parsed
entity encoded in UTF-16 does in fact begin with the Byte Order Mark,
then I can't see any way in which the autodetection algorithm would
fail (barring the pathological cases of an 8-bit-encoded entity
beginning with the characters FE FF or FF FE, of course).
-Steve Schafer
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