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Re: XML 1.1 and Unicode normalization

• To: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Subject: Re: XML 1.1 and Unicode normalization
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 07:02:34 -0400
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Michael Kay scripsit:

> What it actually says is:
> 
> "A text-processing component ... MUST NOT normalize the suspect text."
> 
> And it defines:
> 
> "A text-processing component is a component that recognizes data as
> text."

Yes.  Recognizes text, not produces text.

> We can argue about what that definition means - I would say anything
> that reads octets and treats the octets as encoded characters satisfies
> the definition. Perhaps the authors intended something different, but
> then they should have written something different.

I agree: that satisfies the definition.

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