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> -----Original Message----- > From: John Cowan [SMTP:cowan@l...] > > Paul Langer wrote: > > > One remark on the EBCDIC handling: > > > > Your program returns "EBCDIC-CP-US" if it detects EBCDIC > > without an explicit encoding declaration (see comment: > > /* better than nothing */). > > > > I do not think that this behaviour is "better than nothing". > > In Java I could throw an error, but C doesn't have exception > handling, and I figure a server would rather return something > than nothing. The routine is not meant to handle ill-formed > XML, and will return one of the other defaults ("UTF-8", > "UTF-16-BE", "UTF-16-LE") depending on just what bytes it sees. > If this gets turned into an Apache module it would be better to return DECLINED and let the next mime sniffer module handle it - that's what I do in my Apache::MimeXML. I don't think it's a good idea to make assumptions for invalid XML - just return an error code. Just my 2p Matt. 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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