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• Subject: Re: Unicode normalization in XML 1.1
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 02:22:41 +1000
• References: <001101c2fa8e$14336dd0$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>

> That is eminently reasonable, but it's not what charmod says.


You don't have to consider normalization for conformance to Charmod:--

* if your system is not a WWW system (out of scope)
* if you can trust the source
* for every individual operation inside a black box (e.g. as long as 
  "any externally observable results MUST be the same as if the 
   rules had been obeyed")
* if you inspect the data and find no requirement

A recipient shouldn't try to normalize unnormalized text: Draconian 
error handling.


Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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