Re: State of the Art wrt XML/XSL.
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 06:58:46AM -0400, Norman Walsh wrote:
> / Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org> was heard to say:
> | On Saturday 15 July 2000, at 15 h 33,
> | the keyboard of Michael Koehne <kraehe@copyleft.de> wrote:
> |
> | > default perl for Debian. To use Perl 5.6 is a requirement for
> | > any serious XML work, because of `use utf8;`.
> |
> | You criticize very loudly Debian's handling of CPAN modules and,
> | while I don't know if you are right about CPAN (because you provide
> | no details), this claim is obviously ridiculous: I handle XML daily
> | with Perl 5.005. Where did you see that UTF8 is mandatory for the
> | XML author? Do you really use an UTF8 editor, for instance?
>
> <delurk>
> While it's true that you can do a lot of XML processing with Perl 5.005
> and ASCII, it's also true that UTF8 is a required encoding for XML.
> And I have, on several occasions, been tripped up by UTF8 encoded
> files (produced by perfectly conforming XML applications) that then
> get mangled by some perl script or another.
> </delurk>
>
There's a work around by using the recode utility, but it still just
a workaround (especially that sablotron doesn't seems to respect the
output encoding argument). So, yes, you can work with perl 5.005 but
perl 5.6 is still better.
> Be seeing you,
> norm
>
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