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RE: [xml-dev] version numbers and infosets

From: Michael Kay <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:30:48 +0100
To: "'John Cowan'" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, "'Rick Jelliffe'" <ricko@allette.com.au>
Cc: <www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org>, <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Message-ID: <000201c234b9$6acc1930$6401a8c0@pcukmka>

> 
> > Why not try that minimal solution first, and see if it works?
> > 
> > (And why not do it as a corrigendum rather than 1.1)
> 
> I keep telling you why.  Because it changes the definition of 
> well-formedness. A document like "<foo<NEL>bar=baz> is not WF 
> XML 1.0, but it is WF XML 1.1.
> 
You could do it without changing the definition of well-formedness by
saying that the set of characters considered to be whitespace, and
normalized as such, is a property of the encoding.

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com 
Received on Friday, 26 July 2002 11:28:40 GMT

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