Re: transcoding nearly certainly wrong?

Hello Larry,

At 23:36 03/09/18 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:

>Why is transcoding nearly certain to be wrong with XML?

The argument is that people are not able to set up
their servers correctly.


>Or, to put it another way, why not limit the use
>of text/xml to XML instances for which transcoding
>is certain not to be wrong, and for which US-ASCII
>is acceptable (because the XML uses numeric character
>references or character entities, is only used to
>code a limited schema with numeric data, etc.?)
>
>Limiting the scope is less radical than deprecating.

I'm not sure this makes sense. For types with mostly
just numeric data, text/... may be the wrong type.

And defining types that are XML, but restricted to
US-ASCII would be a really bad idea for types that
actually can contain text.

Regards,    Martin.