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Dear Bjoern Hoehrmann,

As you may already know, the issue you raise regarding the
well-formedness checking of public identifiers has been
entered into the public Bugzilla system as bug 4372

   http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4372

The XSL Working Group discussed this issue on today's call.
Your point appears to be well taken; the consensus of the group
was that serializers should indeed check the values of public
identifiers for conformance with the relevant production of
the XML spec.  We expect to draft errata for the relevant
documents and approve corrections in due course.

We note for the record that checking the characters of the
public identifier is NOT the same as checking the public
identifier for conformance to the grammar for formal public
identifiers in ISO 8879.  XML does not require that public
identifiers be formal public identifiers, and such checking
doesn't feel as if it belongs at the well-formedness level.
(This isn't something you suggested; I record it only
because the topic came up in the discussion and if we
don't record the result, the topic will only come up again
in future.)

We'll try to keep you informed when further progress on the
issue is made.

--C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
   World Wide Web Consortium / MIT CSAIL

Received on Thursday, 15 March 2007 18:11:03 UTC