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Thanks for the replies Tim. Some quick notes: > > >I must add the attribute to *every* instance of the table in my documents. > >Then my authors complain saying "what the f&*k is this polluting > >my table markup". > >Wouldn't it be OK to add this on the way out to the browser, >so the authors don't have to see it? That would work but gets me involved in run-time XML transformations at functional boundaries such as document check-in, check-out and browse. I think this approach has a lot of merit in fact but the plumbing is not there yet to support it. I hope to contribute some ideas on this (and also round-tripping issues) in the near future. > >6) Character encodings > > > >I want to ensure that my documents do not use characters > >outside the ISO-8859-1 range. But I don't want to > >use an iso-8859-1 encoding declaration because parsers > >are not required to support it. > >Every parser I've ever seen supports 8859-1. Is there a >single counterexample? Not that I know of but I cannot, hand on heart, use it in systems where I stake my reputation on their XML compliance because it is a de facto rather de jure thing. > But <snicker> that doesn't help you >though, because I can always put € (Euro) in my 8859-1 >text. BTW Sean, how do you do Euros? Opera 5 doesn't do Unicode but this gets me a Euro sign for my current setup: euro:before { content: "\80" } Opera 6 has just been announced and apparently does Unicode so hopefully this hack can hit the showers. I hope this hasen't come across as a tirade against Opera. I'm using Opera because it is so much better than the other alternatives I have tried. It still has some way to go but I think it is a way cool browser and as a spiffy browser for XML it could well find itself a niche in the browser wars - especially on non-PC devices like WebTVs, cell phones etc. regards, Sean
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