Re: Minutes for XML Core WG telcon of 2008 January 2

François Yergeau scripsit:

> BTW, I haven't seen John's suggestions for updating Appendix J (PE160).

Resending didn't seem to work either, so here they are:

The currently proposed Appendix J consists of suggestions for sensible XML
1.0 5th Edition names, and is directly cloned from XML 1.1.  This text
needs revision to bring it up to speed with Unicode.  We are now in
Unicode 5.0 rather than 3.0; 3.0 has been obsolete since March 2002.
Unicode 5.0 also has a different way of recommending default identifiers which
I propose we adopt: the basic idea "Use common sense" is still the same.

Change the reference from Unicode 3.0 to Unicode 5.0.

Change suggestion 1 to read:

        The first character of any name SHOULD have a Unicode property
        of ID_Start, or be one of the characters listed in the table
        entitled "Characters for Natural Language Identifiers" in UAX
        #31, an integral part of the Unicode Standard that is published
        separately.

Change suggestion 2 to read:

        Characters other than the first SHOULD have the Unicode property
        ID_Continue, or be one of the characters listed in the table
        entitled "Characters for Natural Language Identifiers" in UAX
        #31, an integral part of the Unicode Standard that is published
        separately.

The table in question includes hyphen, period, colon, and middle dot,
as well as various script-specific characters with similar significance.

The normative references in Section A.1 need some adjustments as well.
Add:

        The Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0.0,
        defined by: The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 (Boston, MA,
        Addison-Wesley, 2007. ISBN 0-321-48091-0)

The obsolete references to Unicode 2.0 and 3.2 don't do anything
useful now that we no longer care about the Unicode 2.0 repertoire,
so all references to Unicode throughout the Recommendation should be
consolidated on this version.

-- 
John Cowan   cowan@ccil.org    http://ccil.org/~cowan
If a soldier is asked why he kills people who have done him no harm, or a
terrorist why he kills innocent people with his bombs, they can always
reply that war has been declared, and there are no innocent people in an
enemy country in wartime.  The answer is psychotic, but it is the answer
that humanity has given to every act of aggression in history.  --Northrop Frye

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