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On Thu, 08 Jun 2006 07:23:49 +0100
"Peter Karlsson" <peter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Christoph Schneegans:
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> > Freudian slip? I'm sure Opera uses its XML parser to process
> > <http://schneegans.de/sv/test-cases/?case=meta-only-encoding>.
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> Yes, and the HTML parser to understand. At least that is what I
> would assume, without being an expert on the parsing engine.
>
> > Don't you see that this is evil? Opera now accepts XML documents
> > that all other XML software would reject or at least decode as
> > UTF-8. You're about to destroy XHTML and repeat the sad story which
> > happened to HTML.
>
> We are making use of the information available to make the best of
> the situation.
A conforming XML agent MUST NOT make use of this piece of information,
the XML specification explicitly forbids this by stating that it is a
fatal error for documents for which no external information is
provided, and for which no encoding declaration (as part of the XML
declaration) is specified to contain non-UTF-8 characters (or
non-UTF-16-chars in case of a BOM present). (see
<URL:http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charencoding>, as already mentioned
in the other part of the thread)
The XML spec forbids making "the best out of the situation".
This is an XML point of view. I don't think that using any XHTML stuff
is appropriate for a document served as application/xml, as RFC3023 says
on application/xml:
<URL:http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt>,
section "3.2 Application/xml Registration"
| If an application/xml entity is received where the charset
| parameter is omitted, no information is being provided about the
| charset by the MIME Content-Type header. Conforming XML
| processors MUST follow the requirements in section 4.3.3 of [XML]
| that directly address this contingency.
(section 4.3.3 is what I am refering to above...)
(btw I don't think that users even benefit from Opera's guessing game
at the moment, as I don't think that there is a significant number of
such invalid documents (or even a significant number of documents
served as application/xml) out there -- and people who use XHTML now
are usually eager to fix things...)
Regards,
Milan
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