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Bug 3728 - unparsed-text: use of BOM or other heuristics
Summary: unparsed-text: use of BOM or other heuristics
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: XPath / XQuery / XSLT
Classification: Unclassified
Component: XSLT 2.0 (show other bugs)
Version: Candidate Recommendation
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael Kay
QA Contact: Mailing list for public feedback on specs from XSL and XML Query WGs
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Reported: 2006-09-14 18:03 UTC by Michael Kay
Modified: 2006-09-14 23:17 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Kay 2006-09-14 18:03:29 UTC 
In discussion of test case mdocs09 at today's telcon (see http://www.w3.org/Member/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=612) the WG decided that an implementation of unparsed-text() should be allowed to apply implementation-dependent heuristics to determine the encoding of the external file between steps 3 and 4 (this might include reference to a BOM, or for example auto-detection of a file as HTML with a META tag giving the encoding).

The spec will be changed accordingly.
Comment 1 Michael Kay 2006-09-14 18:04:28 UTC 
In this connection, it was also pointed out that the set of encodings accepted by the processor is an implementation-defined feature, but is not listed as such in the (non-normative) Appendix F.
Comment 2 Michael Kay 2006-09-14 23:17:28 UTC 
Spec now updated.