Re: XML Guidelines -05

[Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx>]

At 14:55 02/06/19 -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:

> The -05 version of the IETF XML guidelines document can be retrieved from
> the mailing list web page:
>
> http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-use/index.html
>
> Thanks for your contributions!
>
> -Scott-


>>>>>>>>
4.4 XML Declarations

   The XML declaration is also an
   important marker for character set/encoding (see Section 5.1), if any
   encoding other than UTF-8 is allowed.

>>>>>>>>

The end should be changed to

"if any encoding other than UTF-8 or UTF-16 is
used. Note that in the case of UTF-16, XML requires that the entity
starts with a so-called Byte Order Mark, which is not part of the
character data."

It's not the encodings allowed, but the specific one used, that makes
the declaration necessary.


>>>>>>>>
   An XML
   declaration should be required in cases where, if allowed, the
   character encoding is anything other than UTF-8.
>>>>>>>>

This seems repetitive, but is now correct, except that the end
sould be changed to 'UTF-8 or UTF-16'.



>>>>>>>>
   In
   situations where encodings other than UTF-8 are allowed, the encoding
   must be specified using an "encoding" attribute in the XML
   declaration (see Section 4.4), even if there might be other protocol
   mechanisms for designating the encoding.
>>>>>>>>

Again, change 'UTF-8 are allowed' to 'UTF-8 or UTF-16 are used'
(and 'In situations where' to 'When').



Regards,     Martin.