ISSUE-40

XML Schema document encoding

State:
CLOSED
Product:
Basic
Raised by:
Paul Downey
Opened on:
2006-05-04
Description:
XML, and therefore XML Schema 1.0 is fairly flexible in the
character sets and encodings, many of which are not supported
by toolkits or allowed by the WS-I Basic Profile.

Proposal:

For the Basic patterns document we specify:

1) An XML Schema MUST use either the UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding. 

2) An XML Schema document MAY begin with the Byte Order Mark (BOM) 
   described by Annex H of [ISO/IEC 10646:2000], section 2.4 
   of [Unicode], and section 2.7 of [Unicode3] 
   (the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE character, #xFEFF).

3) An XML Schema document MUST use version 1.0 of the 
   eXtensible Markup Language W3C Recommendation.
Related emails:
  1. ISSUE-40: XML Schema document encoding (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2006-05-04)
  2. Agenda: XML Schema Patterns for Databinding Telcon 9 May 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-05-05)
  3. Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 9 May 2006 (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-05-09)
  4. Re: Minutes from XML Schema Patterns for Databinding call 9 May 2006 (from petexmldev@tech-know-ware.com on 2006-05-10)
  5. ACTION-80: review ISSUES list against the edtodo list (from paul.downey@bt.com on 2006-10-12)

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