Subject: RE: [xsl] SAXON and UTF-8 From: "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 18:39:13 +0200 |
Seems to me that http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#sec-guessing-no-ext-info is quite clear about it... (I think this was changed in the second edition) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Kay > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 6:28 PM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: [xsl] SAXON and UTF-8 > > > > Windows Notepad saves UTF8 files with Byte Order Mark, and > > AFAIK, the XML > > parser in Saxon (AElfred) doesn't support this (at least it > > didn't last time I checked). > > > > The question is, can an XML document (or entity) in UTF-8 encoding start > with a BOM? The fact that Unicode allows it, and the fact that Notepad can > create it, doesn't make it legal XML. > > My reading of the XML spec is that it expects to find BOM only in UTF-16 > files. I can't see any total prohibition of a BOM in a UTF-8 file, but the > spec certainly seems to assume that they won't occur. If anyone thinks > otherwise, I'd like to see evidence from the XML specification, > which is the > only definitive source. > > This is of course totally off-topic for XSLT. > > Mike Kay > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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