POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : The trouble with XSLT : Re: The trouble with XML Server Time
29 Jul 2024 18:26:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: The trouble with XML  
From: Francois Labreque
Date: 2 Mar 2012 09:43:03
Message: <4f50dc77$1@news.povray.org>
Le 2012-03-02 04:25, Invisible a écrit :
> On 02/03/2012 05:54 AM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 2/29/2012 1:24, Invisible wrote:
>>> As far as I know, there is no way of using XHTML entities without also
>>> declaring that this is an XHTML document.
>>
>> Right. Because that would be meaningless.
>
> The point is, any XML document that contains text may potentially need
> non-ASCII characters. But only XML documents which are also XHTML can
> contain non-ASCII characters. How is that sensible?

Non-XHTML documents can and do contain non-ASCII characters.  What you 
meant to say is that you can't use their XHTML representations outside 
an XHTML document.  Case in point: a .DOCX file does not use é or 
à but can most definitely contain the characters represented by 
those entities.

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