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I happened to notice that canonical XML would also need to change if a UTF-8 BOM becomes legal. From section 2.1 of that spec (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n): * The XPath data model represents data using UCS characters. Implementations * MUST use XML processors that support UTF-8 and UTF-16 and translate to * the UCS character domain. For UTF-16, the leading byte order mark is treated * as an artifact of encoding and stripped from the UCS character data (subsequent * zero width non-breaking spaces appearing within the UTF-16 data are not * removed) [UTF-16, Section 3.2]. I'd have to look at XPath to see if that would need revision too. - Dvae ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Tobin" <richard@c...> To: <xml-dev@l...> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 4:00 AM Subject: Re: UTF-8 BOM > >| Except that a UTF-8 BOM isn't really a new feature; it's just one that all > >| too many implementors overlook. > > >It's a new feature added by E105, in the last batch of "errata" before the > >2nd edition spec was published. That was called a "clarification", but it > > Actually it was added by E44 (http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata#E44) > which is described as "substantive". E105 just amended that. > > E44 was back in the days of the XML Syntax Group (before the XML Core > Group existed). You'd have to go back through their archives to work > out whether they realised that the non-normative text that they were > adding didn't correspond to anything in the normative part of the > spec. > > -- Richard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org, an initiative of OASIS > <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To unsubscribe from this elist send a message with the single word > "unsubscribe" in the body to: xml-dev-request@l...
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