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At 02:51 PM 5/24/00 -0400, John Cowan wrote: >Currently the XML Recommendation is silent about the handling of >documents that contain "impossible" bytes. For example, the byte 0xFF >cannot appear in any UTF-8 encoded document. We are considering making >such violations of the encoding a fatal error. Tricky one. If detected, it should be a fatal error in the draconian XML style. ... >CON: Some parsers may be relying on libraries supplied by the OS, which may >not properly signal erroneous input. Wow... what would they actually do, I wonder? This seems kind of horrid. I think it should stay fatal, on the following analogy: if a document contained "<foo<<<<>" and a broken system I/O library supressed all but the first "<<<<<", the error would be undetectable. But the document's still broken. I think the analogy is exact. -T. *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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