[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: The XML decl is not a PI (especially in SAX)
The XML header could be a PI tag based on its delimiters, but it is not by definition. James Clark has picked me up on this a few times: he is so tough. The XML header is stripped as a function of entity management. However, even though the encoding attribute in the XML header does not form part of the information set of a document, I think it is a mistake to think that it should be discarded after the parsing of a document. On the contrary, I think applications should operate so that, by default, the output encoding of documents matches the input encoding (of the root entity, unless the root entity is ASCII and subentities use some other ASCII-superset encoding, in which case that encoding should be used.) I hope that future APIs could keep this in mind: hide the encoding from the processor by all means, but save the encoding information for re-encoding later. Rick Jelliffe 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 unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe 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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