- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 02:40:44 -0500
- To: Chris.Newman@innosoft.com
- CC: xml-editor@w3.org
Dan Connolly wrote: > http://www.imc.org/ietf-calendar/mail-archive/1445.html > > Have you written anything about these design errors > that you could point me to? Oops... just found it; archiving a copy at xml-editor@w3.org. ======== Yes there are specific technical deficiences in the XML spec. My summary list from a quick skim of the spec follows: * Didn't define BNF notation. * Processing Instructions introduce interoperability problems. There is also no registry for PITargets. * "<![CDATA[" notation is cumbersome and creates new parser state and alternate representations. * Version number text is broken -- likely to leave things stuck at "1.0" just like MIME-Version. * Reference to UCS-2 which doesn'treally exist. * Too many encoding variations. &#x; &#; &; UTF-8, UTF-16. * Byte-order mark replicates TIFF problem. http://www.imc.org/ietf-calendar/mail-archive/1451.html ======== -- Dan Connolly http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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