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At various points (e.g. 3.2), the SML-IF document describes SML-IF documents (and other XML documents) at the level of the octet stream. Some WG members believe that it would be better to define SML-IF exclusively (or at least primarily) at the level of the XML information set of the documents in question, and to leave all details of the character encoding scheme and similar issues to the XML parsing layer of the stack. This affects the description of SML-IF documents in the third paragraph of 3.2, the description of physical embedding of model documents in the fifth paragraph (and following) of 3.2, and possibly other parts of the spec. (A separate issue is to be raised concerning the encoding question in 3.2 paragraph 3.)
Resolution is to remove second bullet point in 3.3 and move to non-normative text.
*** Bug 4666 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Removed this bullet from section 3.3 * be encoded either in UTF-8 or in UTF-16. Created this item under the Open Issues ( Non Normative section ) *Remove requirement that SML IF documents must be encoded using UTF-8 or UTF-16.