Re: [Serial] Re: Preserving character entities

Elliotte,

 I see that you also sent this to public-qt-comments but I'll just
 respond here (The WGs will no doubt respond on the other list)

My use case and original WG reply are  here:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2004Feb/1235.html




> I suggest a third bullet point be added along these lines:
> 
>     * the encoding attribute has a value other than "utf-8" or utf-16"

I essentially requested that the third bullet was utf8 utf16 or
us-ascii.

The version suggested in the original reply quoted above would not allow
malformed output and in fact although being phrased generally would
just allow the case under discussion. ascii files with no explict xml
encoding declaration.


I believe the more general case that is there now (just droping the
restriction altogether) came about due to use cases of eg wanting to
concatenate xml documents and/or send them with authoritative encoding
information in http headers, for both of which encoding declarations  in
the file can be a problem. However I didn't ask for that, and am not on
the WG so can't really say, just guessing.

David

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