Re: [xsl] F & O 3.0 -- serialize() function question

["Wolfgang Laun wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To me, this means that the result is, in any case, a sequence of
Unicode characters, and not one of octets in any of the possible
(UTF-x) encodings.

-W

On 01/06/2014, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  I am reading the definition of the serialize function() in the XPath
> and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0 specification,
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions-30/#func-serialize
>
> Having read several times this text, I feel confused:
>
> "The final stage of serialization, that is, encoding, is skipped. If
> the serializer does not allow this phase to be skipped, then the
> sequence of octets returned by the serializer is decoded into a string
> by reversing the character encoding performed in the final stage."
>
> If, on one hand "The final stage of serialization, that is, encoding,
> is skipped", then how is it possible to do "reversing the character
> encoding performed in the final stage" ?
>
> And what could possibly be a "string with reversed character encoding"?
>
>
> I am deeply confused.
>
> Could someone, please, explain this text?
>
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> Dimitre Novatchev
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