Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Bad Continuation of Multi-Byte UTF-8 Sequence

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Dave Pawson wrote:

> >Encoding can be specified by this way for external parsed entities,
> >version pseudoattribute is optional - moreover some XML processors are
> >unable to process external entity if it contains version information in
> >its declaration.
> 
> Surely this is a weakness in the XML spec then? I'm stuffed if I need
> an external parsed entity in a different encoding?

Rather this is weakness in some implementations - which are then
non-conformant. If I remember it correctly, e.g. MSXML 2.5 and some 3.0
betas have this error in it. Current tools behave correctly AFAIK.

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