[OAI-implementers] pointies in abstracts

[Joe Futrelle]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 03:08:49PM -0600, Simeon Warner wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Joe Futrelle wrote [excerpt]:
> > Just a quick example to illustrate the internal DTD subset strategy;
> > suppose you need to use a copyright symbol, which in HTML is ©
> > and in ISO-8859-1 is 169.  You could do it like this:
> >
> > <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-1'?>
> > <!DOCTYPE myEntities [
> >   <!ENTITY copy "&#169;">
> > ]>
> > <GetRecord ... etc ...
> 
> Note that the current OAI spec permits only encoding="UTF-8" (see section
> 3.1.2.1 Content-Type). The same could of course be done with UTF-8
> encoding however.

Thanks for the reminder, I had forgotten and was using ISO-8859-1.

Hussein, can you add an encoding test to the Repository Explorer?  I
have a repository sending back responses encoded in ISO-8859-1 and
it's passing the RE tests.

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