MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format
Chris Lilley
chris at w3.org
Mon May 21 17:24:33 CEST 2007
On Monday, May 21, 2007, 10:48:49 AM, Anne wrote:
AvK> On Sun, 20 May 2007 02:24:11 +0200, Chris Lilley <chris at w3.org> wrote:
>> Swapping your sentences around: yes, the whole idea of +xml is that you
>> know you can use a generic XML parser.
>> Something that might or might not be xml, therefore should not use +xml.
>> An XML parser must understand UTF-8 and UTF-16 and may understand other
>> encodings. I gather that the Efficient XML folks will declare a new
>> encoding, and parsers which don't know it will not parse it. Same is if
>> I said the encoding was
>> encoding="i-bet-you-never-heard-of-this-one"
AvK> "Efficient XML" seems to be more on the content encoding level than the
AvK> character encoding level to me.
I would have thought so too, but Liam Quin tells me this is not the current thinking in the EXI WG.
AvK (Assuming you meant charset="blah" as
AvK> opposed to encoding="blah" above given your examples of UTF-8 and
AvK> UTF-16...)
No, I meant exactly what I typed.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#NT-EncodingDecl
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