- From: Robert Streich <streich@slb.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 02:28:53 -0500
- To: Michael Sperberg-McQueen <U35395@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
- Cc: W3C SGML Working Group <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
At 10:07 AM 10/18/96 CDT, Michael Sperberg-McQueen wrote: >At the very least, when we adopt rules not on their technical merits but >solely to preserve compatibility with 8879, even in cases where 8879's >rule is now generally conceded to be a Bad Thing, I think the spec >should introduce the feature with the phrase "For compatibility >reasons ... " -- as in "For compatibility reasons, the string '--' >(double hyphen) is not allowed within comments." WG8 members can then >read the XML spec with a clear idea of where an XML rule was adopted >because it seemed a good one, and where it was adopted solely for >the sake of compatibility with 8879:1986 and will gladly be changed >when the revision sets things right. I agree. Although I very much want this behavior so that I don't have to explain to people why they have to use 1s and 0s in CALS table markup, I think we should defer it to a future version of XML once the SGML revision has been completed. Robert Streich streich@slb.com Schlumberger voice: 1 512 331 3318 Austin Research fax: 1 512 331 3760
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