I really hope you're joking. Do you really not see that it's completely non-obvious if it's supposed to be UTF-8 or UTF-16?
-Patrick On May 21, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote: > The name of the class makes it pretty obvious to everyone that the data is > XML. > > On 05/21/2010 10:23 AM, "Patrick Rutkowski" <rutsk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Milder tone? No thanks. >> >> Any API that accepts binary data needs to give at least a hint as to what >> format the binary data should be. Saying that just it accepts "data" is >> disgusting. Period, end of argument. >> >> Actually, maybe there is one more thing to be said: >> >> Perhaps if the class is something like PNGImage then you can have an >> initWithData method which says that it accepts just "data", because in that >> that case it's plainly obviously what format it's supposed to be. But this >> isn't such a case. >> >> If you want to advocate that it's perfectly fine to omit information about >> the >> format of binary data, then you're just a moron. I'm not saying that you're a >> moron for accidentally forgetting to document it, but if you want to say (as >> you seem to be doing) that it's OK to consciously leave it out, then you're >> just a moron. >> >> -Patrick >> >> On May 21, 2010, at 1:07 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Patrick Rutkowski <rutsk...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> I find it disgusting that the doc section for NSXMLParser initWithData >>>> takes >>>> binary data, but doesn't tell you which encoding it's supposed to be? >>>> >>>> Link: >>>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/reference/foundat >>>> ion/Classes/NSXMLParser_Class/Reference/Reference.html#//apple_ref/occ/instm >>>> /NSXMLParser/initWithData: >>>> >>>> I'm still pretty new to XML though, does the encoding always have to be >>>> UTF-8, or perhaps always UTF-16? >>> >>> You find it "disgusting," yet you admit you're new? Perhaps a milder >>> tone is warranted here? >>> >>>> Either way, which encoding does initWithData expect to get? Does it perhaps >>>> detect which encoding is being used, based on the data you give it? >>> >>> Please read the relevant section of the XML spec, keeping in mind that >>> it is non-normative: >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-guessing >>> >>> --Kyle Sluder > > _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
