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> Can you post some URIs? Are you willing to share them? I would trust > your servlets to be doing the right thing. I can probably release these. I'll check. I also have a few other bits of code that I'm trying to release. > > I still dislike the encoding information in the PI.... > > (it isn't, in theory, a PI although it looks exactly like one) I am of > quite the opposite point of view - I think that it finally > gives authors the ability to correctly label their documents. Right. My opinion though is that is does the right thing in the wrong place. > The same is true of any label. The encoding declaration in the XML > declaration at least always travels with the document, which is always > handy for ensuring metadata doesn't get lost. Right. The problem is really one of *metadata* not *data*, that is precisely my point. The *.mim proposal provided an *explicit* separation of the two. In retrospect, I must say that *.mim us also woefully insufficient... but that we still need, in some form, a way of encoding, and transporting, in an interoperable manner, the information (metadata) that is needed by *processors* of the data. > But if you are transcoding, you have to fix it anyway - so? Right, but a) You have to fix it by parsing a peice of arbitrary syntax, which proxies etc. will most likely not do, for performance reasons. b) The XML declaration is part of the *document* as specified by the XML 1.0 recommendation, changing the XML declaration changes the *document*, which is a Bad Thing(tm). 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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