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Re: UTF-8+names

• To: richard@c...
• Subject: Re: UTF-8+names
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:47:30 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200310221344.OAA20642@m...> (message fromRichard Tobin on Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:44:05 +0100 (BST))
• References: <200310221344.OAA20642@m...>

> If you can show a single real document that this applies to, I'll take
> it more seriously.

No. Sorry surely the onus must be on the WG who are proposing to break
those documents to show that it is not a problem.


> The problem is that you don't know which characters are line breaks
> until you've read the version number.

That is the problem. That the white space rules have changed in what is
claimed to be a minor version increase. The way to fix this is not to
change the white space, not to make yet more incompatible changes to
limit the damage.


> The change was based on implementor feedback, in particular a comment
> from me, though I only suggested outlawing the new line end characters.

But that was presumably a comment on implementing the NEL change, but
hiding the symptoms is the wrong approach.

David

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