Re: Charset II - defn.

[Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

Dick,

The encoding attribute in the prolog is optional, but
there is a default value as per your last email with the
BOM, etc. 

Now, what we could do is have the encoding attribute
required for ebXMLHeader document and that would end
the discussion.

Chris

Dick Brooks wrote:
> 
> Ian,
> 
> The encoding attribute of the XML prolog is "optional", are we going to
> REQUIRE this within the ebXML header document?
> If not then we should reword to:
> "SHALL be equivalent to the encoding attribute, when present, in the ebXML
> message Header XML Document"
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ian.c.jones@bt.com [mailto:ian.c.jones@bt.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:20 AM
> > To: ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org
> > Subject: Charset II - defn.
> >
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> > All,
> >
> >       after discussion today lets try this:
> >
> > The charset attribute SHALL be equivalent to the encoding attribute of the
> > ebXML message Header XML Document (described in section 3). For maximum
> > interoperability it is RECOMMENDED that UTF-8 be used.  Note: this is not
> > the default for MIME
> >
> > Ian Jones
> >

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