- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 17:12:35 -0400 (EDT)
- To: reagle@w3.org
- Cc: Paul@w3.org, pgrosso@arbortext.com (Grosso), w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org, www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
This is an unofficial response. Joseph Reagle scripsit: > I never understood this discrimination against numbers and wonder if there > was much demand to finally permit them and it was decided against? (Or > where did this constraint come from in the first place?) It comes from SGML, but in general most computer languages don't allow identifiers that begin with digits, so they don't get confused with numbers. > FYI: Canonical XML does not emit a version in the presumption that a > version-less instance is 1.0 . Just so. -- John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> http://www.reutershealth.com I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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