Re: Call for Review of XHTML Test Cases 142, 147, and 154

Mark Birbeck wrote:
> My observation about TC154 is simply that the character after
> "xmlns:test" caused my XML editor problems. (I thought I might as well
> see if the document was well-formed.)

The entire point of the test case is that that particular character is 
likely to cause problems :-)

It's a U+0140, which is permitted by the latest Rec of XML at 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-NameChar> but forbidden (not 
well-formed) according to the previous Rec at 
<http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml-20060816/#NT-NameChar>.

Most XML implementations follow the old 4th Edition, so they'll consider 
the test case ill-formed. I guess RDFa is meant to be based on the 
latest edition (since I don't see anything that looks like intentional 
references to old versions), but I'm not at all certain about that. So 
this test case is an attempt to clarify the situation.

-- 
Philip Taylor
pjt47@cam.ac.uk

Received on Thursday, 5 November 2009 20:32:33 UTC