• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 06:42:22 -0700

At 09:12 AM 5/3/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>James Clark writes:
> > It should be specified whether a byte order mark at the beginning
> > of a XML byte stream is included as part of the character stream.
> > I don't think it should be 
>
>My first hunch is the opposite: the XML productions deal with
>characters, not bytes.  

I think James has the spec on his side here.  The BOM should *definitely*
be hidden from SAX customers.

 -Tim


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