Subject: RE: encoding <-> omit-xml-declaration
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:38:05 -0000
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> Since ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, an XML file created using ASCII +
> entities should be correctly read if the reader assumed it
> was UTF-8.
> That is, there should be no harm in
> writing some (most?) UTF-8 characters as entities. (or am I missing
> something here?)
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> What does XSLT 2.0 say about needing the xml declaration for
> such encodings?
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> Is US-ASCII such an encoding?
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There is a last call comment (which I consider to be a perfectly
reasonable request) asking us to add US-ASCII to the list. I guess we
will have to use words such as "any encoding supported by the processor
that can be correctly decoded by a UTF-8 decoder", or something to that
effect.
Michael Kay
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