- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@topologi.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 17:30:46 +1000
- To: "WAI Cross-group list" <wai-xtech@w3.org>
From: "Al Gilman" <asgilman@iamdigex.net> > * "odd characters may make inaccessible names" Good > * "good-symbols BCP at dialect level" Good > * "no clear cut." Yes, I wouldn't expect the WAI group to be deciding individual cases. Indeed, it is rather to the point that there can be considerable impediments to even getting as far as examining them! What I would hope is even the people on the XML Core WG who really would prefer that all characters be allowed in names will say "well, given the robustness aspect and the WAI aspect and the Unicode identifier guidelines and XML 1.0 history and user's expectation that readability be promoted, all things considered we should err on the side of being overly restrictive rather than being overly open." Naming-rules is one of these tricky things IMHO, where there is a combination of factors that some may consider minor in themselves (if you know what I mean) but which cumulative are more compelling. So "no clear cut" guidelines should be carefully distinguished from "no action required"! I would suggest that there is an WAI advantage if all programming/markup languages/environments standardize on supporting the Unicode guidelines for identifiers, which are very similar to XML 1.0 but are updated based on character properties. So "no clear cut" would be better as "no clear cut specific guidelines, but commending the Unicode identifier rules to the XML Core WG" Cheers Rick Jelliffe
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