RE: Regular expressions should support \x{....} escapes

> http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#C073 has "Publicly interchanged content
> SHOULD NOT use codepoints in the private use area." Reference to and
> use of are equivalent concepts here. You might well argue that SHOULD
> NOT is not MUST NOT, conformance checkers are nevertheless going to
> point out violations of the SHOULD NOT requirement 

I fail to see how a conformance checker is supposed to know whether the
content is being publicly interchanged. I would think that most conformance
checkers are likely to give the user the benefit of the doubt, or at least
to provide options.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

Received on Tuesday, 24 January 2006 10:57:41 UTC