Re: James Clark's comment on XML Namespace vs. XML 1.0 5e

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:54:13AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Henry S. Thompson scripsit:
> 
> > I suggest we consider as a matter of urgency issuing an erratum
> > against Namespaces allowing Namespace implementations to track XML by
> > using 5e's definition of NameStartChar, at the same time that we
> > publish XML 5e.
> 
> Yes.  Absolutely essential.

+1 -- it looks as if this what the implementations already do this,
in any case, or at least that they don't check the characters twice...

Liam

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