- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 19:13:00 +0200
- To: "John Cowan" <jcowan@reutershealth.com>, "Julian Reschke" <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: <www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org>
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com] > Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 7:08 PM > To: Julian Reschke > Cc: www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org > Subject: Re: need clarification on 2.13 (Normalization Checking) > > > Julian Reschke scripsit: > > > As far as I understand the requirement, any XML 1.0 document that uses > > Unicode composing characters would become non-wellformed in 1.1, right? > > Only if they are used where precomposed characters are already available; > thus A followed by COMBINING ACUTE is non-WF because A WITH ACUTE > is available. OK, this is the case here. > > If this is the case, protocols that currently use XML 1.0 for > marshalling > > will either > > > > - have to stay with XML 1.0 or > > > > - ensure that composing characters do not appear in protocol messages. > > XML is not meant to be a dumping ground for arbitrary sequences of > Unicode characters without regard to sense. I didn't mean to say that. It's just that I think that this change will break more than the editors seem to think, and that those who are affected are not aware of that. I personally believe that Unicode normalization would be a good thing.
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