Stefan Behnel added the comment: > As an advice I hope you do not take as insult, saying > "in section {section} the spec says {argument}" > is much more constructive than > "read the spec on that", "{extremely_obvious_link}", > at least to people not familiar with the spec and asking for the source > of > your arguments (msg196360). Can shorten threads, too.
No harm done. The reason why I just posted the spec URL is that it's actually the entire spec that backs the argument. XML is (essentially) specified as a mapping from a sequence of bytes to a hierarchical structure (and back again). That's why there is an XML declaration header that names the encoding, for example. It wouldn't be needed if XML was defined as Unicode data. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18850> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com