- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:10:14 +0100
- To: Krzysztof Maczyński <1981km@gmail.com>
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org, www-forms-editor@w3.org
Hi Krzysztof, You are right that the ampersand needs escaping, but that is exactly why it's a better choice as the default. With the change to XForms 1.1, authors only need to provide a value for @separator if the server they are addressing uses semi-colons. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR) 2009/10/19 Krzysztof Maczyński <1981km@gmail.com>: > Dear WG, > > Pardon the cross-posting, but I'm not sure to which list this should go. > > In XForms 1.1 PR the default of the separator attribute was changed to ampersand. Semicolon is a viable and fairly common alternative whose main advantage over ampersand is that it doesn't need escaping in XML and SGML. See also [1] and [2]. Worse even, authors often fail to escape it, which results in errors. I'd like to ask you to reconsider this change and I'd rather see it reverted. > > Best regards, > > Krzysztof Maczyński > Invited Expert, HTML WG > > [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/MatrixURIs > [2] http://xmltoday.org/content/dancing-naked-streets-madman-takes-html-5#comment-2240 > (Not what you might expect having read that URI.) > >
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