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> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:04:54 +0100 > From: Chris Lilley <chris@w...> > > The default rules if no other rule is in place for a specific Media > type. The registration for text/xml can overridfe this behaviour if > it wishes to. In theory, but not in practice. A processor that understands text/plain but not text/xml is allowed to use the rules for text/plain when encountering text/xml. So although text/xml can say, "Do X," a processor that doesn't know text/xml from text/adam may well do Y instead. Mandating that people who can't hear you must listen is not particularly effective. This is why application/xml exists: to avoid fallback text/* rules. > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:50:19 +0100 > From: Chris Lilley <chris@w...> > > So, in consequence: example file such as the Chinese XML examples at > http://xml.ascc.net/xml/test/index.html (where each example is > available in UTF-8, Big5 and GB2312, all correctly labelled in the > XML encoding declaration) are now sets of invalid XML files which > are required to produce a critical error because of the invalid byte > sequences in what is now described as a US-ASCII file? Describing files in encodings other than US-ASCII or ISO 8859-1 (or maybe other ISO 8859s) as text/anything is not a very good idea. The rules for text/* allow many unhealthy things; 8-bit data is not even a safe assumption, and line-end normalization can be a killer. The fallback rules for MIME's two-level hierarchy is only the final straw; for non-European encodings, I would use application/xml. -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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