- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:29:40 +0700
- To: Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-microxml <public-microxml@w3.org>
>> - Unicode names for elements/attributes > > Please include. We've ignored non ASCII users before. It would look pretty bad leaving these out, on the other hand I suspect the percentage of XML that uses non-ASCII names is fairly tiny (non-ASCII data is completely another matter). If we allow them, we have the difficult question of which Unicode characters to allow. > Is it a high cost for an implementer? XML 1.0 1st edition names would be a very significant cost; but even 5th edition names (as in John and my drafts) is a significant cost given the very small size of the language. >> - decimal character references > > tentative yes, include, rationale, I don't have a smart editor. We are talking only about decimal (base-10) references here. I don't think anybody is suggesting removing hex references (&#x...;). Do you really want to use decimal? Unicode characters are almost always referred to by their hex value. I can't think of any programming language that allows referencing Unicode characters in decimal. James
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