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Re: XML encoding guessing

Subject: Re: XML encoding guessing
From: Christoph Schneegans
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:04:15 GMT
Newsgroups: opera.beta
"Spartanicus" wrote:

>> An XML document is a sequence of characters. This character sequence
>> cannot be constructed from
>> <http://schneegans.de/sv/test-cases/?case=meta-only-encoding>. So
>> there's no document that must be either well-formed or not.
>
> I don't follow what you are saying.
>
> We've established that your document is not a conforming XML document

What's the definition of a "conforming XML document"?

> But do you agree that your demo complies with the defined list of
> well-formedness constraints as laid out in the spec, if not do you
> have an url to support this?

I really like my explanation that there's no XML document.

Of course, there's no WFC to prohibit invalid byte sequences. WFCs apply
to productions, and productions deal with characters, not bytes.

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