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I have a question regarding what appears to be an inconsistency between the original XML 1.0 spec and one of the errata. Erratum E44 contains the following: "Add the following to the second paragraph after the list (this also takes care of the previous erratum on UTF-7): 'Note: Since external parsed entities in UTF-16 may begin with any character...'" Whereas the second paragraph of section 4.3.3 says: "Entities encoded in UTF-16 must begin with the Byte Order Mark..." I'm inclined to believe the original spec. If an external parsed entity encoded in UTF-16 does in fact begin with the Byte Order Mark, then I can't see any way in which the autodetection algorithm would fail (barring the pathological cases of an 8-bit-encoded entity beginning with the characters FE FF or FF FE, of course). -Steve Schafer 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/ or CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 Please note: New list subscriptions and unsubscriptions are now ***CLOSED*** in preparation for list transfer to OASIS.
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