RE: Charset II - defn.

[Dick Brooks <dick@8760.com>]

Chris,

I totally agree, if the encoding attribute is "REQUIRED" in the prolog of
the ebXML header document then Ian's text can remain unchanged!

Dick Brooks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Ferris [mailto:chris.ferris@east.sun.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 11:16 AM
> To: Dick Brooks
> Cc: ian.c.jones@bt.com; ebxml-transport@lists.ebxml.org
> Subject: Re: Charset II - defn.
>
>
> 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"
> >
> > Dick Brooks
> > Group 8760
> > 110 12th Street North
> > Birmingham, AL 35203
> > dick@8760.com
> > 205-250-8053
> > Fax: 205-250-8057
> > http://www.8760.com/
> >
> > InsideAgent - Empowering e-commerce solutions
> >
> > > -----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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