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Re: The "what is XML" permathread revisited -- was Re:[xml-dev

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: The "what is XML" permathread revisited -- was Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list availabl e
• From: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@l...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:34:30 -0400
• Cc: Liam Quin <liam@w...>, Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>,xml-dev@l...
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You're right, character encoding is set for the whole file, i.e. 
'external parsed entity', I misread XML 1.1 section 4.3.3 on a late 
night rereading...
I had always thought that was the case, but thought I read differently 
in the 1.1 spec.

Still, in an XIS implementation it makes sense, even if the text would 
be converted uniformly when going to XML 1.1.

sdw

Dare Obasanjo wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Stephen D. Williams [mailto:sdw@l...] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 10:44 AM
>>To: Liam Quin
>>Cc: Rich Salz; xml-dev@l...
>>Subject: Re:  The "what is XML" permathread 
>>revisited -- was Re:  XML Binary Characterization WG 
>>public list availabl e
>>
>>I would also note that every element can have it's own 
>>encoding.  This meshes perfectly with my plan to support 
>>whatever encoding is used for text in a particular element, 
>>individually for each element.  
>>    
>>
>
>I've never heard that XML allows every element to have its own encoding,
>in fact I'm pretty sure it explicitly disallows it. 
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