- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:37:04 -0400
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > I think there's a way to limit the damage this does to the existing > infrastructure. Whatever the eventual identifier is chosen for > Blueberry (version="1.1", unicode="3.1", etc.) I think it should be > a *fatal error* to use this identifier in a document that does not > actually use any of the newly introduced characters in an XML name > somewhere. The trouble with this scheme is that it makes generation on the fly, particularly by separate modules, difficult. > In other words, if a document can be an XML 1.0 document, it must be > an XML 1.0 document. I would certainly agree that it SHOULD, but MUST seems a bit severe. -- 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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