Re: well-formedness error

[Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx>]

At 00:04 04/06/20 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> * MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
> >When text/xml was created by RFC 2376 (a predecessor of RFC 3023) , it
> >was oblidged to follow RFC 2046 and RFC 2068.  That is, we were oblidged
> >to ensure that exisiting MIME implementations (which do not know
> >text/xml but rely on fallback to text/plain) correctly detect the
> >charset parameter.  Thus, the use of the BOM or encoding declarations
> >were (and still are) unacceptable.
>
> Could you please explain why this is unacceptable for text/xml but
> perfectly fine for text/html, text/css, etc.?

The main reason, from what I know from history:

text/html grew so quickly under the radar screen that it was too
late to set things straight. In the text/xml case, the issues
were carefully discussed, and the authors of the MIME specs
were involved.

Regards,   Martin.