Re: 12. Are C1 controls and Unicode non-characters disallowed?

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 3:24 PM, David Lee <David.Lee@marklogic.com> wrote:

> How does adding to the list of characters a parser can handle simplify the
> language ?
>

But that's not what it's doing.  It's actually reducing the valid
characters.



> ****
>
> To my reading that makes the spec, and the language more complex (it has
> higher information count because it takes more rules to define what not to
> do ...
>

No actually.  The MicroXML production has the same number of rules.  The
proposed change is to make the MicroXML rules consistent with those of
Unicode, which is the basis of XML's and MicroXML's.  That means defining
fewer exceptions from the Unicode rules in MicroXML, which is simpler.
 It's also simpler in practical implementation because it would mean
MicroXML becomes consistent with most Unicode tools to be used in
association with MicroXML, including those used to write parsers.


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