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Re: The XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation is published

• To: elharo@m... (Elliotte Rusty Harold)
• Subject: Re: The XML 1.1 Candidate Recommendation is published
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:09:02 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <p04330101b9d2f5d9ffde@[192.168.254.4]> from "Elliotte Rusty Harold" at Oct 16, 2002 06:56:46 AM

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Unicode character normalization should be performed on XML documents,
> unless you don't feel like it, in which case you can ignore it. This almost
> makes sense. Basically it says that parsers may change an e followed by a
> combining accent acute into the single character é if they want to or the
> client asks for it. The details are quite complicated, but at least it's
> optional.

No, not at all!  XML 1.1 says that parsers should *check* normalization,
not that they should *perform* it.  So a parser that sees an e followed
by a combining acute should report the lack of normalization to the
calling application.

This is a most important distinction.  XML *generators* should generate
normalized output; XML *accepters* should check normalization.

> And of course all the other problems previous drafts have had are 
> still present. I've already calumnied these sufficiently in the past. 

Oh, go ahead and slug us again -- we can take it.

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