Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

MURATA Makoto scripsit:

> This implies that XQuery should introduce its own mechanism (see [4])
> and that the compact syntax of RELAX NG should introduce another.

I don't see that either of these are self-describing in the relevant sense,
any more than a C program is.

> As far as I know, the charset parameter is the only generic mechanism.  I 
> know the charset parameter is not working well, but I do not see any other 
> generic mechanisms.

It's an acceptable mechanism when there is no internal declaration present.
It causes problems when internal declarations are or may be present.

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