Re: MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format

On Sun, 20 May 2007 02:24:11 +0200, Chris Lilley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Swapping your sentences around: yes, the whole idea of +xml is that yo=
u  =

> know you can use a generic XML parser.
>
> Something that might or might not be xml, therefore should not use +xm=
l.
>
> An XML parser must understand UTF-8 and UTF-16 and may understand othe=
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> encodings. I gather that the Efficient XML folks will declare a new  =

> encoding, and parsers which don't know it will not parse it. Same is i=
f  =

> I said the encoding was
>
> encoding=3D"i-bet-you-never-heard-of-this-one"

"Efficient XML" seems to be more on the content encoding level than the =
 =

character encoding level to me. (Assuming you meant charset=3D"blah" as =
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opposed to encoding=3D"blah" above given your examples of UTF-8 and  =

UTF-16...)


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