XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[John Cowan <cowan AT mercury.ccil.org>]

Johan Strandberg scripsit:

> >   You can only return the tentative encoding if
> > it is UTF-8 or UTF-16; otherwise, you have a fatal error. 
> 
> 
> No, according to the paragraph I quoted to from the standard it is an
> error, not a fatal error. Here is the paragraph again:
> 
> 
>         In the absence of information provided by an external transport
>         protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME), it is an error for an entity
>         including an encoding declaration to be presented to the XML
>         processor in an encoding other than that named in the
>         declaration, or for an entity which begins with neither a Byte
>         Order Mark nor an encoding declaration to use an encoding other
>         than UTF-8. Note that since ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, ordinary
>         ASCII entities do not strictly need an encoding declaration.

True, enough, but three paragraphs down appears the following sentence
(the first line of which was added by official erratum 23):

        Unless an encoding is determined by a higher-level protocol,
        it is also a fatal error if an XML entity contains no encoding
        declaration and its content is not legal UTF-8 or UTF-16.

I will attempt to get the Core WG to resolve the conflict in time for
the pending 3rd Edition.

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