[r6rs-discuss] Stateful codecs and inefficient transcoding

From: Chris Hanson <cph>
Date: Tue Oct 31 02:07:48 2006

   Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:53:20 -0500
   From: William D Clinger <will_at_ccs.neu.edu>

   I am told that XML files can contain several different
   encodings of text,

This isn't true. An XML file has exactly one text encoding, specified
at the beginning of the file, by a combination of the XML declaration
and an optional BOM for UTF-16/32 encodings.

An XML document may refer to one or more external parsed entities, and
those entities may use different encodings. But an external parsed
entity is _not_ part of the same byte stream as the referring
document.
Received on Tue Oct 31 2006 - 02:07:42 UTC