Amelia A. Lewis scripsit: > Discussion of the issue revealed that x#D is included in S as part of > compatibility with SGML; the discussion included a rather grotesque > example of hackery that could get this code point to show up in a > document, bypassing normalization. Can you provide the details? > I would be happier with a notation (somewhere!) indicating that the > persistent retention of x#D in S is *not* because it is commonly > encountered, and that in fact it takes great effort to force the code > point to appear in XML (at which point, so far as I can tell, it pretty > much can't be roundtripped either). It's a very special case; including > it without comment confuses. I wouldn't object to adding a motherhood note to the Third Edition (and a fortiori to XML 1.1). -- A mosquito cried out in his pain, John Cowan "A chemist has poisoned my brain!" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan The cause of his sorrow http://www.reutershealth.com Was para-dichloro- jcowan@reutershealth.com Diphenyltrichloroethane. (aka DDT)Received on Tuesday, 24 June 2003 11:18:14 UTC
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