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.
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