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Re: XML encoding guessing

Subject: Re: XML encoding guessing
From: Spartanicus
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 13:41:26 GMT
Newsgroups: opera.beta
Christoph Schneegans <Christoph@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>>> Why does 8414 render
>>>>> <http://schneegans.de/sv/test-cases/?case=meta-only-encoding>?
>>
>> There is the requirement to report a fatal error to the application,
>> and the application must not continue normal processing, but that's
>> different from what you claim.
>
>Opera does continue continue normal processing. What else would you call
>that?

A failure to comply with a certain XML fatal error condition. But your
document *is* well formed.

>> I changed the encoding declared in the meta element from iso-8859-1 to
>> iso-8859-15 and reloaded from cache, Opera's info panel information
>> didn't change, which suggests that the meta element is ignored.
>
>I don't know what you've tested, but your result are obviously wrong.
><http://schneegans.de/sv/test-cases/?case=meta-only-encoding> now uses a
>"meta" element that declares ISO-8859-2. Guess what the Info panel says.

You're right, Opera does make use of the encoding specified in the meta
element. Apparently the Info panel info doesn't update when reloading
from the cache.

-- 
Spartanicus

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