- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 16:59:35 -0400
- To: "John G. Spragge" <jgs@dancing-cat-software.com>
- CC: "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>
John G. Spragge wrote: > Characters which have a font or compatibility decomposition > (i.e. those with a "compatibility formatting tag" in field 5 > of the database -- marked by field 5 beginning with a "<") > are not allowed. > Question from an implementor of the parser: does this mean > xml excludes characters with decompositions altogether (presumably > to avoid normalisation issues), or does it mean xml identifiers > exclude such characters? Thanks... The constraint is on XML names (identifiers) only. Compatibility characters elsewhere in XML documents are only discouraged, not forbidden. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
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