[whatwg] XMLHttpRequest.responseXML and invalid XML documents

[Hallvord Reiar Michaelsen Steen]

On 31 Jan 2006 at 18:59, Ian Hickson wrote:

>> Suggest removing the unsupported character encoding statement from this 
>> sentence. The spec should say that when an unknown character encoding is 
>> used the UA should assume UTF-8 and move on with parsing.
> 
> Absolutely not. That would violate the XML specifications.
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> What IE does is much closer to correct here.

OK, thanks for the quick response.
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