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Julian Reschke wrote:
> Michael Champion wrote:
>
> > OK, I'll bite and expose my lack of attention to the details -- why are
> > smart quotes illegal in XML? (Or is it that the encoding is
>
> They aren't.
>
> > mis-specified?) Was this proposed to be fixed in XML 1.1? Does anyone
>
> It was mis-specified (actually it wasn't specified at all, and as it
> wasn't UTF-8 it should have been).
>
> > outside the RSS/Atom world complain about this?
>
> Any XML parser MUST reject it, otherwise it doesn't deserve the name.
True, but the aggregator as a whole might still accept it --
possibly by noticing that the encoding is mislabelled and
munging the data into proper UTF-8 before passing it to the
parser.
In fact any aggregator that doesn't do something like this
is doomed to fail -- *nobody's* feed has the encoding labelled
properly. (Well, maybe not "nobody", but certainly not very many.)
--Joe English
jenglish@flightlab.com
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