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 Right. James's solution turns cakes into puree. It liquifies the names and after that, options go away. XML is designed for a short haul timespan. When you want to design for the long haul, go back to the SGML parent and work from there. Splintering XML doesn't bother me. It is itself a splinter of the original. If it is the delusions of history that bother people, you have to accept the fact that a well-made Persian rug will outlast XML by a factor of ten at least. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Marcus Carr [mailto:mrc@a...] Don Park wrote: > No, I did not mean that </> could be a start tag for an element named "/". > > Marcus, don't you think you are nitpicking over details which are best > worked out after some consensus gathers behind James' proposal? Sorry Don, please advise me when the appropriate moment arises for further comment. In the mean time, another concern is the fact that by allowing all characters to be name characters, we forgo the possibility of sequestering a currenly illegal character for a purpose similar to the way that the colon has been used to represent a namespace. Are we now certain that we don't need to keep any characters in reserve for the future? (We only got away with redefining the colon because it happened early enough in the in the piece.) Would those who use non-ASCII character sets feel obliged to reserve their own set of characters for the same purpose? If so, the proposal would not eliminate the problem, only make it very, very much smaller. Parsers would still have to keep pace with languages... I suspect this is why Len feels that this is an SGML problem - the easiest way for the parser to keep pace is to be provided with a map of characters at processing time. 
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