Re: Comments on 31 March spec

Christopher R. Maden writes:
>Appendix A: "... depending on the character set..."  No, no, NO!!!
>ALL XML documents *must* have the same character set, in the SGML
>sense, or the numeric character references are trash.  They may have
>different encodings or BCTFs, but the *character set* is ALWAYS the
>same.  This prose must be cleaned up ASAP, or we'll be haunted by
>incompatible applications for XML's entire brief life.

To get rid of this problem, I would like to disallow number references to two 
byte characters.  Does anybody have any problems?  I don't think Japanese have 
any problems.

Makoto

Received on Thursday, 3 April 1997 20:49:28 UTC