Re: Production 78 / Process failure in XML 1.1

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> If the intent was to prevent restricted chars from appearing 
> literally, I agree that this would have been an editorial change, not 
> a substantive one and not a process violation. 

Good.

> However, as actually
> written I don't think the spec does forbid restricted chars in the 
> document entity,

I'm inclined to agree, but I may be overlooking something.

> and I'm not convinced it forbids them in external 
> parsed entities. (I'm not sure about that. Maybe production 78 can be 
> construed to indicate that, but it's not obvious to me. I think that 
> <element>#x07 and lots of other restricted chars here</element> does 
> satisfy production 78.)

The BNF notation a - b used in the XML Rec means "anything which matches
a but does not match b".  Your sample document clearly does match
Char* RestrictedChar Char*, and as such cannot match production 78.

> If the intent was to forbid literal restricted chars, then perhaps 
> all that's needed is a 2nd PR that makes the necessary editorial 
> fixes to say what was actually intended, and you can avoid going back 
> to last call.

I'll defer this to experts in W3C process.

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