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>As far as making the relative priorities explicit. I hope there is no >intention to supercede the XML encoding declaration as the normative way >in which documents, not being wrapped by some higher protocol which >treats the text at some more generic level, announce their character >set. As far as I know, no change is planned. For a historical and unfortunate reason, determination of the charset of WWW pages has become an extremely hard problem. Since XML is not only for human readable documents but also for programs and database systems, failture to determine the charset leads to devastating results such as corrupted database. XML 1.0 and RFC 2376 do not provide a perfect solution, and I am not quite happy (probabaly, nobody is completely happy). However, after loooong discussion, we have painfully learned that there are no alternatives on which majoriy of HTTP/MIME/XML people would agree. I sincerely hope that people will follow these two specifications and that we will have better interoperability. Cheers, Makoto Fuji Xerox Information Systems Tel: +81-44-812-7230 Fax: +81-44-812-7231 E-mail: murata@a... 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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