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Re: XML-1.1 -- just ignore it

• To: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@r...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: Re: XML-1.1 -- just ignore it
• From: David Brownell <david-b@p...>
• Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 13:36:52 -0800
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> > It'd be much better to have that normalization be done by layers
> > above XML than to hard-wire such requirements into the core
> > of XML.  I'd certainly expect normalization rules to evolve.
> 
> Actually, it might be better to do it below the parser... closer to the input 
> stream level.

That'd mean "inside the parser", because of autodetection
of charsets.  Unless there's a standard non-text I/O layer
that XML parsers must start to use ... :)

But the actual encoding is visible through the infoset, so this
normalization (and its evolution) can be layered.

- Dave

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