Re: [xml-dev] genx - string termination and bounding

[Michael Fuller <msf@mds.rmit.edu.au>]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 07:39:50PM -0800, Tim Bray wrote:
> - if you have a zero byte in the string before you get to the end mark, 
> should it just stop, or throw an error?  The first is more consistent 
> with C culture (cf strncpy) but the latter a bit more stringent.  
> Moderately leaning to just stopping.

Throwing an error seems to be more consistent with:

> - if the stop marker is stupidly in the middle of a UTF-8 character, 
> genx should detect this and declare an error.

Michael