RE: BP 24: what's all that about?

I guess I would be fine if the BP said something like:

Avoid escaping (actual) markup in your documents in order to avoid issues
with namespaces.

and added a note to explain that we don't mean content in examples, etc. I
would also want to add some more explanatory text to example 31 to say why
the person did this this way - ie. what their motivation was, and where the
markup came from.

Currently it just says

Avoid storing markup in escaped form in your documents.

which, i think, is not quite specific enough in its meaning, and lead me to
suppose that you were also talking about escaping content in things like
examples.

Am I on the right track now?

RI

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Richard Ishida
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-i18n-its-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-i18n-its-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel
> Sent: 05 December 2007 12:51
> To: 'Richard Ishida'; fsasaki@w3.org
> Cc: public-i18n-its@w3.org
> Subject: RE: BP 24: what's all that about?
> 
> 
> 
> > I still don't see why one would ban <...&gt.
> 
> We are not trying to ban "<...&gt". They are obviously 
> just fine when they are literals. But here they are not. They 
> are "<...>"
> from the viewpoint of the localizer.
> 
> The case of an example is different: in that case it's 
> 'normal' content and you can put markup in it. But in the 
> case we are trying to address in BP24, the content will be 
> used as-it outside the XML document.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> -yves
> 
> 
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>