- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:18:17 +0100
- To: "Boris Zbarsky" <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: public-i18n-core@w3.org, www-style@w3.org
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:13:07 +0100, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> 3. How likely is that XML will change to require doing NFC >> normalization on input? Currently XML does reference Unicode >> Normalization normatively, but it does only do so from a non-normative >> section on guidelines for designing XML names. If XML does not change >> it does not make a whole lot of sense to change e.g. CSS selector >> matching because that would mean some XML element names that are not in >> NFC could no longer be selected. > > It seems to me that the normalization proposal would involve normalizing > both strings before matching, so they could still be matched. To wit, weird XML vocabularies that have XML names using the two variants of e.g. ë would change in meaning (and return different results), but I suppose this is highly theoretical. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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