Re: [xslt-conformance] Issue statement regarding encoding

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2002-03-04 15:53 -0500, you wrote:
>A couple months ago, I was talking with the Microsoft guys (Pranav
>and Kirill) about our respective submissions. We discovered that Xalan
>creates UTF-8 encoded output by default, while MSXML creates UTF-16
>encoded output by default. Neither team has been making it a habit to
>include xsl:output directives to force the encoding. Thus, most of
>our reference outputs are UTF-8, and most of theirs are UTF-16.

I think canonicalization will iron out any such character set wrinkles.

>In a strict sense, we also have the issue that every test case that
>lacks an xsl:output encoding declaration invokes one of these
>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xslt/xsltdisc.htm#default-encoding-UTF-8
>http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xslt/xsltdisc.htm#default-encoding-UTF-16
>discretionary items. We could flag every such test, but I think it's
>preferable to discuss our real solution before embarking on that path.

Have you gone through the canonicalized comparison between the output from 
the two processors to see if the diff is the same or not?

>This should be on the agenda for our next meeting.

Done!

.............. Ken


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