I agree, we could have just removed the entire line and it wouldn't harm the example. The fact that it was an example may lead someone to copy/paste it and then later get surprised by the encoding as they modify it. If the line is there, I think it's a better practice to make it portable.
Dave Booz
STSM, BPM and SCA Architecture
Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC and SCA-J TC
"Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
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Anish Karmarkar <> wrote on 06/24/2009 05:30:16 PM:
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> Re: [sca-bindings] Comments on CD02-rev5 binding.jms
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> Anish Karmarkar
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> to:
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> sca-bindings
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> 06/24/2009 05:30 PM
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> David Booz wrote:
> > Hi Simon,
> >
> > 1) Was bindings-74 fully applied? I think the folllowing is missing:
> > Change sentence: MUST comply with all the applicable requirements
> > specified in this specification." to -> "MUST comply with all statements
> > in Appendix B: Conformance Items related to elements and attributes in
> > an SCA JMS Binding XML document, notably all "MUST" statements have to
> > be implemented"
> >
> > 2) Section 3.1 links to Appendix A are broken "Error! Reference source
> > not found."
> >
> > 3) The examples have the following line "<?xml version=”1.0”
> > encoding=”ASCII”?>", it should be encoding="UTF-8"
> >
>
> Not sure why this change is needed. The examples don't contain any
> non-ASCII characters (maybe I missed it?) and ASCII is a subset of UTF-8.
> But of more important, as a general rule, I don't think we should
> include encoding in inlined text examples in any of our specs. It
> doesn't make a lot of sense.
> XML files without encoding attribute on the XML declaration is valid and
> usually not necessary especially when BOM takes care of it.
>
> I'm not advocating any change at this stage. Just ranting.
>
> -Anish
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>
> > Dave Booz
> > STSM, BPM and SCA Architecture
> > Co-Chair OASIS SCA-Policy TC and SCA-J TC
> > "Distributed objects first, then world hunger"
> > Poughkeepsie, NY (845)-435-6093 or 8-295-6093
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