- From: John Stracke <francis@thibault.org>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:13:36 -0400
- To: xml-editor@w3.org
I'm building an XML parser, and I'm somewhat confused by the spec's productions Letter and Digit. My concern is that, if a new character set is defined next week, then existing XML parsers won't consider any of its characters to be Letters or Digits, so people whose language this is will have to use foreign character sets for their XML. I would have expected to find that a NameChar could be anything other than a certain range of punctuation needed by XML. I'm sure you must have had this discussion in the working group; can you point me to an archive where I could read about it, please? My inclination is to have my parser's NameChar accept any non-ASCII character; this would protect users of hypothetical future character sets, at the risk of permitting people to write XML documents that other, stricter parsers would reject. -- /===============================================================\ |John Stracke |http://www.thibault.org |"Hastur was para-| |Francois Thibault |========================/ noid, which was | |Bhakail, East |simply a sensible...well-adjusted reaction| |francis@thibault.org| to living in Hell." -- _Good Omens_ | \===============================================================/
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