changes to appendix J [was: Minutes for XML Core WG telcon of 2008 January 2]

If John and Francois agree on these wording changes and no one
else disagrees, I suggest we do them.

But please make a PE for these appendix J changes before making
these changes to the spec itself.  (Let's not worry about countdown
for this PE, but just assume that when we vote to take XML 1.0 5th Ed
to PER, that will be equivalent to approving this PE.)

paul 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-xml-core-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of John Cowan
> Sent: Wednesday, 2008 January 09 20:11
> To: François Yergeau
> Cc: public-xml-core-wg@w3.org
> Subject: 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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