Encoding detection again ...

[Miles Sabin]

David Brownell wrote,
> "Richard L. Goerwitz" wrote:
> > David Brownell wrote:
> > > And more to the point, XML processors aren't
> > > required to report such low level character 
> > > encoding errors ... this would be one.
> > 
> > On the face of things, this doesn't make sense.
> 
> For example, character encodings are typically handled
> many layers below the XML processor.  That processor
> shouldn't be faulted for behaviors of the underlying
> processor.

Most of the time yes ... but remember we're discussing 
the interaction between encoding detection and encoding 
_declarations_. An XML processor has to have some 
involvement in that.

Cheers,


Miles

-- 
Miles Sabin                          Cromwell Media
Internet Systems Architect           5/6 Glenthorne Mews
+44 (0)181 410 2230                  London, W6 0LJ
msabin at cromwellmedia.co.uk           England


xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1
To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
(un)subscribe xml-dev
To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo at ic.ac.uk the following message;
subscribe xml-dev-digest
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa at ic.ac.uk)